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Publius Ovidius Naso

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Noun1.Publius Ovidius Naso - Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17)Publius Ovidius Naso - Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17)
Morpheus - the Roman god of sleep and dreams


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It hardly seems worth going to university for three years to interpret the finer sentiments in the poems of Publius Ovidius Naso, or Ovid as he was known to his tiny circle of admirers, if you can earn a crust by expanding your bottom," I said.
of Tasmania) examines the relationship between the surviving poems--particularly the erotic works--attributed to Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-18 AD), and the political ideology that his contemporary Augustus developed and promoted as a means of justifying his unprecedented position of virtually unchallenged power as Rome's first emperor.
That's where the lights will come up for tonight's opening performance of ``Metamorphoses,'' Zimmerman's modernized adaptation of the ancient Roman masterpiece by the poet Publius Ovidius Naso - better-known to legions of college freshmen as Ovid.
 
 
 
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