adjective

• Relating to or characteristic of the Roman poet Ovid or his works.

  ‘Ovidian tales of the loves of the gods’

  More example sentences

  • ‘An Ovidian transformation is happening in my hard-to-reach teenager.’
  • ‘Both his early narrative poems are based on Ovidian sources.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘Shakespeare was most Ovidian at the beginning and the end of his career.’
  • ‘The frame with the Ovidian inscription was lost at some time between 1700 and 1842.’