Ovid death

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 b.c.–a.d. 17), one of the most gifted of Roman poets, exercised an influence on Christian and secular poetry in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance second only to that of Vergil.

Within a few years of his death his Metamorphoses became the standard work of reference for Greek and Roman mythology and legend, a position it has never lost.

Ovid meaning

For painters, poets, and preachers, it became the greatest single source of myth, although the Heroides and Fasti were much used also. Similarly, Ovid's treatment of love is the most significant single literary formulation of erotic experience in the Latin tradition.

When Augustine (Conf. 3.1) says, "I was not yet in love, but in love with loving" (nondum amabam sed amare amabam ), he uses the word "love" (amare ) with just that shade of meaning given it by Ovid. In the tradition before Ovid, love was usually treated as an aberration, madness, or sickness (furor, uesania, morbus