The Ovid Statue

Romania / Constanta / Piaţa Ovidiu
Ovid was a prolific Roman poet whose writing influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton. As those men knew, to understand the corpus of Greco-Roman mythology requires familiarity with Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
Ovid wrote his "Metamorphoses" in the epic meter of dactyllic hexameters. It tells stories about the transformations of mostly humans and nymphs into animals, plants, etc. Metamorphoses is a storehouse for Greek and Roman mythology.
In 1916 the Bulgarian occupation troops toppled the statue and tried to ship it to Bulgaria, nevertheless the German Army intervened and the statue was reinstated.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid
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Coordinates:   44°10'26"N   28°39'30"E

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