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====Literary and artistic==== [[File:Publius Ovidius Naso in the Nuremberg chronicle XCIIIv.jpg|thumb|right|Ovid as imagined in the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'', 1493]] * ({{circa|800}}–810) [[Moduin]], a poet in the court circle of [[Charlemagne]], who adopts the pen name Naso. * (12th century) The [[troubadour]]s and the medieval [[courtoise literature]]. In particular, the passage describing the Holy Grail in the ''Conte du Graal'' by [[Chrétien de Troyes]] contains elements from the ''[[Metamorphoses (Ovid)|Metamorphoses]]''.<ref name="Peron, Goulven 2016, p. 113">Peron, Goulven. L'influence des Metamorphoses d'Ovide sur la visite de Perceval au chateau du Roi Pecheur, Journal of the International Arthurian Society, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2016, pp. 113–34.</ref> * (13th century) The ''[[Roman de la Rose]]'', [[Dante Alighieri]] * (14th century) [[Petrarch]], [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [[Juan Ruiz]] * (15th century) [[Sandro Botticelli]] * (16th century–17th century) [[Luís de Camões]], [[Christopher Marlowe]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]], [[Thomas Edwards (poet)|Thomas Edwards]] * (17th century) [[John Milton]], [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s ''[[Don Quixote]]'', 1605 and 1615, [[Luis de Góngora]]'s ''[[La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea]]'', 1613, Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe by [[Nicolas Poussin]], 1651, Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis by [[Peter Paul Rubens]], {{circa|1620}}, "Divine Narcissus" by Sor [[Juana Inés de la Cruz]] {{circa|1689}}.<ref>Tavard, George H. Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty: The First Mexican theology, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1991, pp. 104–05</ref> * (1820s) During his [[Odessa]] exile, [[Alexander Pushkin]] compared himself to Ovid; memorably versified in the [[epistle]] ''To Ovid'' (1821). The exiled Ovid also features in his long poem ''[[The Gypsies (poem)|Gypsies]]'', set in [[Moldavia]] (1824), and in Canto VIII of ''[[Eugene Onegin]]'' (1825–1832). * (1916) [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' has a quotation from Book 8 of ''Metamorphoses'' and introduces [[Stephen Dedalus]]. The Ovidian reference to "Daedalus" was in ''[[Stephen Hero]]'', but then metamorphosed to "Dedalus" in ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' and in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''. * (1920s) The title of the second poetry collection by [[Osip Mandelstam]], ''Tristia'' (Berlin, 1922), refers to Ovid's book. Mandelstam's collection is about his hungry, violent years immediately after the [[October Revolution]]. * (1951) ''[[Six Metamorphoses after Ovid]]'' by [[Benjamin Britten]], for solo oboe, evokes images of Ovid's characters from ''Metamorphoses''. * (1960) ''[[God Was Born in Exile]]'', the novel by the Romanian writer [[Vintilă Horia]] about Ovid's stay in exile (the novel received the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1960). * (1961) The eight-line poem "[[Ovid in the Third Reich]]" by [[Geoffrey Hill]] transposes Ovid to [[Nazi Germany|National Socialist Germany]]. * (1960s–2010s) [[Bob Dylan]] has made repeated use of Ovid's wording, imagery, and themes. ** (2006) His album ''[[Modern Times (Bob Dylan album)|Modern Times]]'' contains songs with borrowed lines from Ovid's ''Poems of Exile'', from [[Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green]]'s translation. The songs are "Workingman's Blues #2", "Ain't Talkin'", "The Levee's Gonna Break", and "Spirit on the Water". "Huck's Tune" also quotes from Green's translation. * (1971) [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]' song "The Fountain of Salmacis" from their album ''[[Nursery Cryme]]'' faithfully reports the myth of [[Hermaphroditus]] and [[Salmacis]] as narrated in Ovid's ''[[Metamorphoses]]''. * (1978) Australian author [[David Malouf]]'s novel ''[[An Imaginary Life]]'' is about Ovid's exile in [[Constanța|Tomis]]. * (1988) The novel ''[[The Last World]]'' by [[Christoph Ransmayr]] uses anachronisms to weave together parts of Ovid's biography and stories from the ''Metamorphoses'' in an uncertain time setting. * (2000) ''The Art of Love'' by [[Robin Brooks]], a comedy emphasizing Ovid's role as lover. Broadcast 23 May on BBC Radio 4, with [[Bill Nighy]] and [[Anne-Marie Duff]] (not to be confused with the 2004 radio play by the same title on Radio 3). * (2004) ''The Art of Love'' by [[Andrew Rissik]], a drama, part of a trilogy, which speculates on the crime that sent Ovid into exile. Broadcast 11 April on BBC Radio 4, with [[Stephen Dillane]] and [[Juliet Aubrey]] (not to be confused with the 2000 radio play by the same title on Radio 4).<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3615337/Tune-in-and-turn-back-the-clock.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3615337/Tune-in-and-turn-back-the-clock.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Gillian | last=Reynolds | title=Tune in, and turn back the clock | date=13 April 2004}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * (2007) Russian author [[Alexander Zorich]]'s novel ''[[Roman Star]]'' is about the last years of Ovid's life. * (2007) the play ''The Land of Oblivion'' by Russian-American dramatist Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky was published in Russian by Vagrius Plus (Moscow). The play was based on author's new hypothesis unrevealing the mystery of Ovid's exile to Tomis by Augustus. * (2008) "The Love Song of Ovid", a two-hour radio documentary by Damiano Pietropaolo, recorded on location in Rome (the recently restored house of [[Augustus]] on the Roman forum), Sulmona (Ovid's birthplace) and Constanta (modern day Tomis, in Romania). Broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Radio One, 18 and 19 December 2008. * (2012) ''The House Of Rumour'', a novel by British author [[Jake Arnott]], opens with a passage from ''Metamorphoses'' 12.39–63, and the author muses on Ovid's prediction of the internet in that passage. * (2013) Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky's "To Ovid, 2000 years later, (A Road Tale)" describes the author's visits to the places of Ovid's birth and death. * (2015) In ''[[The Walking Dead (season 6)|The Walking Dead]]'' season 5, episode 5 ("Now"), Deanna begins making a long-term plan to make her besieged community sustainable and writes on her blueprint a Latin phrase attributed to Ovid: "''Dolor hic tibi proderit olim''".<ref>{{cite web|author=Ovid|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo53.htm|website=Sacred Texts|title=Elegy XI: Weary at Length of His Mistress' Infidelities, He Swears that He Will Love Her No Longer|access-date=14 November 2015|archive-date=13 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113083922/http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo53.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The phrase is an excerpt from the longer phrase, "''Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim''" (English translation: Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you").<ref>{{cite news|title=5 Things You Might Have Missed in The Walking Dead 'Now'|author=Faherty, Allanah Faherty|date=9 November 2015|work=MoviePilot|url=http://moviepilot.com/posts/3634276|access-date=14 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117031658/http://moviepilot.com/posts/3634276|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> * (2017) "...and while there he sighs" for 31-tone organ and mezzosoprano by composer [[Fabio Costa (composer, conductor)|Fabio Costa]] is based on the Syrinx and Pan scene from Metamorphoses, with performances in Amsterdam (2017, 2019).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Huygens-Fokker Foundation {{!}} concert Fokker organ {{!}} 13 January 2019 |url=https://www.huygens-fokker.org/activities/concerts/2019-01-13.html |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=www.huygens-fokker.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Huygens-Fokker Foundation {{!}} concert Fokker organ {{!}} 23 April 2017 |url=https://www.huygens-fokker.org/activities/concerts/2017-04-23.html |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=www.huygens-fokker.org}}</ref> * (2017) Canadian composer [[Marc Sabat]] and German poet [[Uljana Wolf]] collaborated on a free homophonic translation of the first 88 lines of Ovid's ''Metamorphoseon'' to create the cantata ''Seeds of skies, alibis'' premiered by the vocal ensemble Ekmeles in New York on 22 February 2018.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXgdJshN28| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/UWXgdJshN28| archive-date=30 October 2021|title = Seeds of skies, alibis| website=YouTube| date=28 February 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] twice mentions him in: * ''[[De vulgari eloquentia]]'', along with [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]], [[Virgil]] and [[Statius]] as one of the four ''regulati poetae'' (ii, vi, 7) * ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' as ranking alongside [[Homer]], [[Horace]], [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]] and [[Virgil]] (''Inferno'', IV, 88)
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