This is a slideshow about the Roman poet Ovidius Publius Naso and the western European art his work inspired.

1. Ovidius Publius Naso This statue was erected in 1887 in Constantia, Romania, the city which includes the tiny village of Tomis to which Ovid was exiled from 8 CE until his death nine years later.

2. Ovid, il Naso “ The Nose,” named partly for his ability to sniff out gossip in the elite circles of Imperial Rome.

3. Ovid as European Literary Star The frontispiece of George Sandy’s 1632 edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

4. Ovid and the Scythians In 1859, prominent French painter Eugene Delacroix imagined Ovid in exile.

6. And Metamorphoses is till in print today.

7. The Fall of Icarus Pieter Breughel the Elder,1555

8. In 1563, Metamorphoses inspired this view of God resolving chaos and creating the world.

9. This 1589 publication showed Prometheus bringing fire to the world and creating man.

10. Pan and Syrinx Peter Paul Rubens, 1617

11. Apollo and Daphne In 1622, Gianlorenzo Bernini sculpted marble to show Daphne being transformed into a tree.

12. Polyphemus & Acis (1703)

13. Pygmalion & Galatea Jean-Leon Gerome, 1870

14. Echo and Narcissus John William Waterhouse, 1903

15. Metamorphoses

16. Metamorphoses: The Age of Bronze

17. Metamorphoses

18. Metamorphoses