Ovidian
- noun
- /oʊˈvɪdiən/
- Literature
- Many contemporary poets consider themselves Ovidian in their style and themes, drawing inspiration from his works.
Examples
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Critics noted the Ovidian elements in her poems, such as the focus on mythology and poetic elegance.
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In expanding the Ovidian narrative, Bidart makes narrativity both the subject of his "Cinyras and Myrrha" and its richest metaphor; it is both a story about telling stories and a story about what stories, in being told, accomplish.
Academic text (2001) -
For the Ovidian context see G, 412n18. 58 Moxon, 1:a4r.
Academic text (2016) -
Just as the second movement of the play may be read as an inversion of the first, so the third, instead of resolving the dramatic tension by following the Ovidian model, does so by inverting the model.
Academic text (1997) -
I'm thinking here of the Ovidian/Lacanian, not the Freudian tale of Narcissus, in which the hero fails to recognize his reflected image as himself and falls in love with what he supposes to be the real presence of an "other."
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An Ovidian approach to storytelling often involves themes of transformation and desire, reflecting the poet's influence.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ovidian comes from the name of the poet Ovid, so an Ovidian is someone 'like Ovid' who is strongly influenced by his work. An Ovidian is a person who uses myths and stories of transformation in their writing or art.
