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How to use Ovidian in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Ovidian? Here are some examples.

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Ancient depictions of Marsyas show the satyr at one of three moments in the Ovidian narrative.
He analyzes the painting as an illustration of the Ovidian myth and relates it to other pictorial and textual interpretations.
From this perspective, Ovidian rhetoric works to conceal the very desire that organizes it.
Both his early narrative poems are based on Ovidian sources.
Shakespeare was most Ovidian at the beginning and the end of his career.
At each remove, Romeo's separateness doubles an Ovidian romance paradigm, while drawing Juliet away into a shared removedness.
How, given the institutional emphasis on the primacy of Vergil, did Ovidian epyllion become the preferred form of this period's poetry?
The third eclogue of Garcilaso de la Vega presents, the theme of the death of the beloved lady, that appears in the Italian literature with Dante, through the image of throat cutting taken from the Ovidian Metamorphoses.
Kerrigan reflexively assesses the charms of the almost invariably voluptuous young barmaids as well as his age-appropriate Associate, whom he finds attractive in Ovidian soft light.
The Ovidian lover's adoration was calculated to win sensual rewards.
In tracing the many Renaissance moralizations of Ovidian poetry, Jones and Stallybrass make a strong case for how heterosexual virility itself is what effeminizes the male.
Examples from Classical Literature
The brook is the ovidian Almo, whose name and qualities are lost in the modern Aquataccio.
But there is often a sort of ovidian point in the diction which seems misplaced.
Except for some ovidian Epistles, which he is said to have published as early as 1620, Malleville's own poems were posthumous.
It is but reasonable, therefore, that this function of the miraculous should bear the name of ovidian.
The first of these belongs to the class of ovidian myths already noticed in such works as Lorenzo's Ambra.
Further, it does not appear that any writer anterior to Milton made the ovidian change of seasons a part of Adam's penalty.
He has himself overstepped the measure, and made it quite ovidian.
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