Ovid – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Anonymous 18th-century engraving (Source: Wikimedia)

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Basic data

Ovidius Naso, Publius
March 20, 43 BCE in Sulmo
†

17 CE in Tomis
Dichter, Schriftsteller
Constanța

Iconography

Anonymous 18th-century engraving (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari in the Piazza XX Settembre, Sulmona, Italy (Source: Wikimedia)

Ovid Banished from Rome (1838), by J.M.W. Turner (Source: Wikimedia)

Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum (Source: Wikimedia)

Engraved frontispiece of George Sandys's 1632 London edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished (Source: Wikimedia)

A 1484 figure from Ovide Moralisé, edition by Colard Mansion (Source: Wikimedia)

Delacroix, Ovid among the Scythians, 1859. National Gallery (London). (Source: Wikimedia)

Ovid as imagined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 (Source: Wikimedia)

Metamorphoses, 1618 (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Ovide Nason, Etienne Desrochers - 1740 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnnis des Ovidivs, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Naso P. Ovidivs, Picart, Bernard - 1713 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Ovidius Naso, Picart, Bernard - 1731 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Johann Georg Mentzel - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Bernigeroth, Johann Martin - (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Naso Publius Ovidius, Johanna Dorothea Sysang - um 1750/1790 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A008655 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on December 16, 2017

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