Ovid

Latin Phrases Everyone Should Know!

Schools don't teach Latin Anymore. It's a shame really, because now when these uneducated fools get into real life, and…

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Proofs of the Collective Subconscious?

Every once in awhile it happens that I will ask myself a certain obscure question, and that through the seemingly…

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Favorite Latin Quotes and Phrases

I don't study Latin. I have friends who do, but I've always had an affinity for Latin. Thinking in another…

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The Royal Gold Climbing Rose

The Royal Gold climber was planted seven years ago. It is a Dennison Morey origination that was introduced by Jackson…

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Jonson’s Epitaph to Shakespeare

Much like his contemporaries, Ben Jonson utilized the iambic pentameter, though not in the traditional sonnet form. Within "To the…

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Phrase Origins: Halcyon Days

I used to think that the phrase "Halcyon days" meant the "early days" or "the days before one was experienced."…

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Figures of Speech for Dummies

A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that involves a particular verbal pattern, a repetition or other creative use…

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Story of Ovid: The Art of Exile

The mystery of Ovid's exile has haunted scholars for centuries. Why would a famous poet of first century Rome be…

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