Chocolates, cupids and red hearts galore–sure. But for Valentine’s Day the amorous should take a leaf from the book of ancient Rome’s promiscuous poet Ovid. The Art of Love. The 1 BC Ars Amatoria is ...

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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on Friday opens the biggest exhibition ever devoted to art inspired by "Metamorphoses", Roman poet Ovid's most famous work, featuring contributions from artists as varied as ...

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Black Metamorphoses by Shanta Lee, with brush-and-ink illustrations by Alan Blackwell, Etruscan Press, 102 pages. $17. Credit: Courtesy The Roman poet Ovid lived from 43 BC to 17 or 18 AD, during the ...

On Ovid: The Poet and His Work, by Niklas Holzberg. Of his life we know little, other than what he himself tells us. That source may not be completely trustworthy, as Ovid was adept in creating and ...

Ovid, poet of love: Many anonymous works written after his death came to be ascribed to him, “whether or not their authors were trying to imitate his style or not,” according to Ralph ...

(JTA) — Jewish day school graduate and actor Ike Barinholtz successfully answered a question about the ancient Roman poet Ovid to win on “Jeopardy!” Monday night, in a rare success for a celebrity ...

Esmé von Hoffman's reimagining of the ancient Roman poet as a Detroit lothario has plenty of ideas, but no clear audience in mind for them. Making the classics hip for a new generation is a ...