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Ovid

(43—17 bc) Roman poet


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(43 bc–c. 17ad),

Roman poet. He is particularly known for his elegiac love poems (such as the Amores and the Ars Amatoria) and for the Metamorphoses, a hexametric epic which retells Greek and Roman myths.

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Ovid (43 bc–ad 17)
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization Length: 3398 words
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in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World Length: 1507 words
Ovid (43 bce – 17 ce)
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Length: 7186 words

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