Ovid

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid''s masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we''re still reading it two millennia after Ovid''s death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than h...