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Publius Oviius 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 (he is the medieval magister amoris, "master of love"), abandoned women and mythological transformations. Traditionally 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.

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  • Shakespeare's narrative poem "Venus And Adonis" is based in part on this poet's "Metamorphoses"
  • In 8 A.D. he went through his own metamorphosis, from Rome's most successful poet to a man living in exile
  • "O" 8:Augustus banished this Roman poet to an isolated fishing village on the Black Sea
  • In 1930 Picasso created 30 etchings as illustrations for this ancient Roman's "Metamorphoses"
  • The Golden Age of Roman literature runs from Cicero to this "Art of Love" author
  • Born in 43 B.C., this Roman poet wrote a book about love & a book to help people get over being rejected
  • The first book of this Roman poet's "Ars Amatoria", or "Art of Love", instructs its readers how to find a lover
  • Perhaps due in part to the amoral rakishness of his advice book "The Art of Love", he was banned from ancient Rome
  • Jesus was a teenager when this Roman was banished for a poem on the art of making love

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