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    [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːso(ː)]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/ OV-id), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus...
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    "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the...
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  • Ovid Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Michigan: Ovid Township, Branch County, Michigan Ovid Township, Clinton County, Michigan...
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  • Ovid Technologies, Inc. (or just Ovid for short), part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic databases, academic...
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    Morpheus (section Ovid)
    Morpheus occurs in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where Ovid tells of the story of Ceyx and his wife Alcyone who were transformed into birds. In Ovid's account, Juno...
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    Ovid is a statutory town in Sedgwick County, Colorado, United States. The population was 271 at the 2020 census. The town was named after Newton Ovid...
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    Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.405 ff. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.463 ff. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.302 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.350 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.332 Ovid,...
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    Ovid is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Ovid is named for the Roman poet Ovid, who lived...
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  • Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes, published in 1997 by Faber and Faber. The book is a retelling of twenty-four...
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  • may refer to: Ovid, Colorado Ovid, Idaho Ovid, Michigan, a village in Clinton County, Michigan Ovid Township, Branch County, Michigan Ovid Township, Clinton...
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    Ovid, the Latin poet of the Roman Empire, was banished in 8 AD from Rome to Tomis (now Constanța, Romania) by decree of the emperor Augustus. The reasons...
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    Somnus (section Ovid)
    and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand' sons, the Somnia ('dream shapes'), who appear in dreams 'mimicking many forms'. Ovid named three of the...
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  • Ovid L. Jackson, OOnt (born February 3, 1939, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana) is a Canadian politician. He represented the federal riding of Bruce—Grey...
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    [hermapʰróditos]) was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably handsome boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted...
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    Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account...
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  • Ovid is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 2,847 at the 2020 census. The town is named after the Roman poet Ovid, a name...
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    Hecatoncheires (section Ovid)
    282–294, and Ovid's Amores 2.1.11–18 (see below). Ovid, Amores 2.1.11–18. Ovid, Fasti 4.593. Artley, p. 20; Frazer's note to Ovid, Fasti 4.593. Ovid, Metamorphoses...
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    Fasti (poem) (redirect from Fasti (Ovid))
    Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and published in AD 8. Ovid is believed to have left the Fasti incomplete when he was exiled...
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    Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph...
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    Arachne (section Ovid)
    the Roman poet Ovid (43  BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. In Book Six of his epic poem Metamorphoses, Ovid recounts how the...
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    historica (4.77.5–9); Hyginus's Fabulae (40); Virgil's Aeneid (vi.14–33); and Ovid's Metamorphoses (viii.183–235). A number of other ancient writers allude to...
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    regardless of gender. According to the best known version of the story, by Ovid, Narcissus rejected all advances, eventually falling in love with a reflection...
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    The Ovid Prize, established in 2002, is a literary prize awarded annually to an author from any country, in recognition of a body of work. It is named...
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  • Ovid Napa Valley is a winery in Pritchard Hill, to the northeast of Oakville in the Napa Valley of California. It was established in 2000. The area, in...
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    Ovid Township is a civil township of Branch County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,161 at the 2020 census. The township, which is primarily...
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    Daphne (section Ovid)
    Apollo is Phylarchus, quoted by Parthenius of Nicaea. Later, the Roman poet Ovid does a retelling of this Greek legend, which appears in his work Metamorphoses...
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    Lake Ovid is a reservoir located within Sleepy Hollow State Park, Michigan, created in the 1970s with the construction of a dam on the Little Maple River...
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    Ovid is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Nearly all of the city is located within Clinton County with only a very small portion extending east into...
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    author. Homer, Ovid, Apollodorus, Servius, and a scholiast on Plato, all name Crataeis as the mother of Scylla. Neither Homer nor Ovid mentions a father...
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    Aristarchus of Samothrace, born at Syracuse. In Metamorphoses Book II, the poet Ovid wrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction: His picturesque details...
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