person
Ovid
also: Publius Ovidius Naso, Овидий
Roman poet (43 BC - AD 17/18), author of the Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria, a staple of Russian gymnasium classical curricula.
Reading notes
- St. Peter's Day §141 Ovid
The Roman poet (43 BC - AD 17/18), author of the Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria, studied in Russian gymnasium curricula; the drunken schoolboy Vanya's recitation of twenty lines of Ovid is a stock comic beat of the classically educated youth undone by wine.