Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BCE – Tomis, now Constanţa CE 17), 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 poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries.
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An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid - Database search for references to characters in the Metamorphoses and the Latin words Ovid uses to describe them.
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Literary Traveloer: Ovid in Exile - An article about Ovid's life as a poet and his exile to the Black Sea.
Metamorhoses by Ovid - Unannotated English translation of the entire work in one indexed page hosted by Windsor Castle.
Meta Description: [ Metamorphoses by Ovid, tr. A. S. Kline. Online English
text of the Latin classic. ]
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Ovid im WWW - Thorough web bibliography, in German but with many links in English
Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses - Annotated online reproductions of illustrated works of Ovid as published in book form, in the University of Vermont's collection.
Ovid's Metamorphoses - Introduction, commentary, and discussion of myths, background information, and influence on art and literature, with links to sources and illustrations
Meta Description: [ Larry A. Brown: discussion of mythology, classical theater, religion ]
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