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A scene from the Pyramus and Thisbe myth as described by Ovid. Thisbe arrives at the mulberry tree and throws up her arms at the sight of the dying Pyramus who lies next to the tree. The handle of a knife protrudes from his chest. Butterflies fly amidst the leaves of the fruitful tree and the lion is shown running away in the distance. Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-17/18 AD) was a Roman poet best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, and of the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. His poetry remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. The exile of Ovid is one of the most mysterious events of what is now called Classical antiquity. In 8 AD he was banished from Rome to Tomis (now Constan?a, Romania), on the shores of the Black Sea, by d...