Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor

Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor (2017) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Michael Wood. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Michael Wood

Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare', they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature.