BBC - Ovid The Poet and the Emperor (2017) Part 1 Ovid The Poet and the Emperor

The story of the Roman poet Ovid who died in the year 17AD in exile.

Part 1 Ovid The Poet and the Emperor

Michael Wood goes in search of the Roman poet Ovid. Metamorphoses made him a superstar but then came scandal and exile. Unique among ancient poets, Ovid left us an autobiography, full of riveting intimacy, as well as ironical and slippery self-justification. Using Ovid's own words, brought to life by actor Simon Russell Beale, the film tells the story of the poet's fame, and his fateful falling out with the most powerful man in the world, the Roman emperor Augustus.

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