Person

Name: Ovidio

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Source: classical

Nature: historical

Gender: male

Birth Date: 43 BCE

Death Date: 17 CE

Description: Roman poet and author of the Metamorphoses. Dante's poem teems with references to Ovidian characters, making Ovid the classical poet whose work figures most significantly after Virgil.

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Doré, Gustave

Doré, Poets in Limbo

Priamo della Quercia

Yates Thompson 36, Limbo