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  <name><![CDATA[Publius Ovidius Naso]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered a great 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.

Ovid made use of a wide range of meters: elegiac couplets in the Amores and in his two long didactic poems, the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris; the two fragments of the lost tragedy Medea are in iambic trimeter and anapests, respectively; the Metamorphoses was written in dactylic hexameter. (Dactylic hexameter is the meter of Virgil's Aeneid and of Homer's epics.)]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Sulmona, Abruzzo</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Metamorphoses]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Art of Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tales from Ovid]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ted Hughes]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Erotic Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Heroides]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library #42)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Justus Miller]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fasti]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Metamorphoses. Ovid]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Publius Ovidius Naso]]></name>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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