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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus...
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- He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
- The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists.
- Acclaimed poet Clare Pollard joins Suzi in the Book Bag to discuss her switch into fiction with her wickedly funny debut novel 'Delphi', her recent free-verse Ovid translations and her love of classical myths and legends.
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