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Dionysus was said by the Roman poet Ovid to have
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Ovid was exiled by the emperor Augustus in 8 CE for what he himself terms “a poem and a mistake.”
Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
