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Bust of Ovid (photograph by Lucasaw, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Author

Ovid

43 BC–AD 17 · Poet

The poet of love and transformation, exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea for “a poem and a mistake”. The Metamorphoses gathered Greek and Roman myth into one unbroken song.

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The Metamorphoses, the Amores, the Heroides, the Art of Love and the Cure for Love, in Latin beside English.

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