Ovid

44 BCE–17

Ovid was a Roman poet of the Augustan age. His Metamorphoses became a major source for Greek and Roman myth, while his love poetry and exile works reveal both literary playfulness and the vulnerability of writers under imperial authority.

In Fiona Forsyth’s Poetic Justice, the poet Ovid has been banished by Augustus to a remote Black Sea town on the empire’s Danube frontier. In Fiona Forsyth’s Death and the Poet, Ovid has established a reluctant routine in exile when the vegetable seller Dokimos is found beaten to death. Other novels featuring Ovid include Fiona Forsyth’s Written in Blood, Ovid’s Fasti, Ovid’s Heroides, and Ovid’s The Fall of Icarus.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to Ovid

Augustan Age 27 BCE–14 CE Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking 40 BCE–17 CE Reign of Augustus 27 BCE–14 CE

Series

Series featuring Ovid (1 series)

The Publius Ovidius Mysteries in Order

by Fiona Forsyth 3 books 4.4

The Publius Ovidius Mysteries reimagine the exiled poet Ovid as an unwilling investigator in Tomis on the Black Sea. His self-importance, literary knowledge and connections to Rome make him both useful and dangerous to Marcus Avitius, the provincial adviser responsible for maintaining order. The frontier setting places local…

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