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Ovid: Peace, Scandal and Immortality

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Ovid’s magnum opus was possibly the most ambitious project ever undertaken in the (then relatively young) history of world literature. Written between 2-8 AD, this mythological masterpiece became a rival to that instant classic of the Augustan age, Virgil’s Aeneid.

Often considered his crowning achievement, Metamorphoses rete…

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