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Original Language:English
Production Companies:Maya Vision International
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Ovid The Poet and the Emperor
1 hrDocumentary
Michael Wood explores the life works and influence of one of the worlds greatest storytellers who died 2000 years ago When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in honey tongued Shakespeare they were just stating the obvious Ovid everyone knew was simply the most clever sexy and funny poet in the western tradition His Metamorphoses it has often been said is the most influential secular book in European literature
StarringMichael Wood
DirectorRebecca Dobbs