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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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  • 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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    "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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    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 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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    [hermapʰróditos]) was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably beautiful boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted...
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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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. Book one of Ars amatoria was written to show a man how to find a woman. In book two, Ovid shows how to keep...
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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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    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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  • (see Ovid). The Village of Ovid is within the Town of Ovid, but a small portion is in the Town of Romulus, and is southeast of Geneva, New York. Ovid and...
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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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     281; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.168–535. Gantz 1996, p. 281. Tripp 1970; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.189–203. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.201–203. Ovid, Metamorphoses...
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    Ovid Township is a civil township of Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township had a population of 2,188. The population...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    was noticed by all. 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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