Swan

Rome's most elegant poet, tortured by passion and exile.

Ovid, the ancient Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria, embodied the swan's fusion of exquisite grace and fierce inner turbulence. His poetry was supremely refined and beautiful, yet his life was defined by romantic obsession and devastating emotional upheaval — culminating in his mysterious exile by Emperor Augustus, which destroyed him. Like the swan, his serene artistic surface concealed a passionate, perfectionist soul capable of sudden and dramatic upheaval.