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1Ovid — For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation). Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) Imaginary depiction of Ovid with laurel wreath (from an engraving) Born March 20, 43 BC Sulmo, Roman Republic (modern …
2OVID — (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet of the Augustan age, born at Salmo, of equestrian rank, bred for the bar, and serving the State in the department of law for a time, threw it up for literature and a life of pleasure; was the author, among… …
3Sabinus (Ovid) — Sabinus, a contemporary poet and a friend of Ovid, known to us only from two passages of the works of the latter: #From Am. ii. 18. 27 34, we learn that Sabinus had written answers to six of Ovid s Epistolae Heroidum. Three answers enumerated by …
4Six Metamorphoses after Ovid — English composer Benjamin Britten composed the program music Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (Op. 49) for solo Oboe in 1951. Intended to evoke images of the Roman poet Ovid s Metamorphoses , the piece is dedicated to oboist Joy Boughton, daughter of …
5List of ancient Romans — This an alphabetical List of ancient Romans. These include citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history for some reason. Note that some persons may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name. See also: List of Roman Emperors… …
6Sabinus — (Latin, Sabine, ie from the Sabine region feminine form Sabina), can refer to:* Sabinus (mythology), the fabled ancestor of the Sabines, an ancient people that lived in Latium, Italy before the founding of Rome. * Quintus Titurius Sabinus, a… …
7Alexander Polyhistor — Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ) was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor. After his release, he continued to live in Italy as a Roman… …
8Boios — The obscure Boeus (Βοῖος) was a Greek grammarian and mythographer, remembered chiefly as the author of a lost work on the transformations of mythic figures into birds, his Ornithogonia , which was translated into Latin by Aemilius Macer, a friend …
9Hyginus, Gaius Julius — ▪ Roman author flourished 1st century AD Latin author and scholar who, according to Suetonius (De Grammaticis, 20), was appointed by Augustus superintendent of the Palatine library. He went to Rome from Spain or Alexandria as a slave or… …
10List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy — The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts or canticas (or cantiche ), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio 33, and Paradiso 33 …
