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Name: Ovid
Birth Date: 43 B.C.
Death Date: c. 18
Place of Birth: Sulmo, Italy
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, elegiac

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Biography of Ovid
9,481 words, approx. 32 pages
Ovid, first poet of the new age of Imperial Rome, died in A.D. 17 at the Greek settlement of Tomi on the western shore of the Black Sea. Most of what is known of his life derives from his poem Tristia (Sorrows, 4.10) written during the grim final years...
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Biography of Ovid
1,747 words, approx. 6 pages
Ovid (43 BC-ca. AD 18) was a Roman elegiac and epic poet. His verse is distinguished by its easy elegance and sophistication. Ovid whose full name was Publius Ovidius Naso, was born on March 20, 43 B.C., at Sulmo (modern Sulmona) about 90 miles from...


Quotations
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Ovid Quotes
3,302 words, approx. 11 pages
Publius Ovidius Naso ( 20 March 43 BC - 17 AD) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid , wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical...


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Ovid, Influence Of : Medieval France
1,415 words, approx. 5 pages
. When the name of the sophisticated Roman poet of the Augustan age is mentioned in conjunction with medieval France, most scholars think of the Ovide moralisé, a text from the first half of the 14th century. In fact, Ovid’s works—from...
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Ovidian Tales : Medieval France
822 words, approx. 3 pages
. Throughout the Middle Ages, Ovid was read, glossed, imitated, and translated. It is not surprising that the 12th century, the aetas Ovidiana, should have produced, among other works based on Ovid, French versions of some of his Metamorphoses. Those...
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Paray-Le-Monial : Medieval France
502 words, approx. 2 pages
. Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire) is a Romanesque priory belonging to Cluny III, the mother church of the Cluniac order, and located some 13 miles west of Cluny. The design of Paray-le-Monial is based directly on that of Cluny III, yet the sizes...
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Ovid Information
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Publius Ovidius Naso (March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics, including love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the...


News and Journals
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Monarch Notes
Works of Ovid: Latin Poetry: Ovid
01/01/1963: 609 words, approx. 2 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Latin Poetry: Ovid Life 43 B.C. - 18 A.D. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Sulmo, east of Rome, the very year after Julius Caesar had died (43 B.C.). His mother was a noblewoman. His father had him educated to become...
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Ovid Announces Books@Ovid, OpenLinks Toolkit.
02/01/2000: 978 words, approx. 3 pages
Ovid Technologies, Inc. has announced a new content product, Books@Ovid, which is the follow-up to its Journals@Ovid product. In a separate news release, Ovid announced a new software product, Ovid OpenLinks Toolkit, to enhance the value of customers' Ovid bibliographic database subscriptions. ...
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AP News
Plath biographer Middlebrook dies at 68
12/16/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
Diane Middlebrook, a leading feminist scholar who wrote acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, died Saturday. She was 68.Middlebrook, who helped launch feminist studies at Stanford University, where she taught literature for 35 years, died of cancer in San Francisco, according to...
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AP Features
Guineans strike in demand for president to step down
2/12/2007: 641 words, approx. 2 pages
Security forces blocked roads leading into the center of Guinea's capital Monday as the West African country's biggest unions staged a strike and demanded the president step down.It followed rioting Saturday in which at least 11 people died, according to medical officials and witnesses. Local...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Raphael Lyne
5,397 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Lyne discusses Shakespeare's use of Ovid in The Tempest, distinguishing between imitation and allusion as modes of adapting his stories. Lyne reads The Tempest as intertextual dialogue, not only between Shakespeare and Ovid, but also including Golding as translator.
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