Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet of the reign of Augustus, often ranked with Virgil and Horace among the three canonical poets of Latin literature. He is best known for Metamorphoses, a mythological narrative in fifteen books, and for elegiac poems such as Ars Amatoria and Fasti. Augustus exiled him to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he spent his last years. Tales from Ovid gathers 24 episodes from the Metamorphoses, following gods and mortals as they are changed by desire, jealousy and loss.
