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    The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [faːstiː], "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written...
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    1632 and 1655. The poem went through eight editions before 1641. The Rape of Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's History...
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    Primavera (Botticelli) (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
    inspired by a description by the Roman poet Ovid of the arrival of Spring (Fasti, Book 5, 2 May). In this the wood nymph Chloris recounts how her naked charms...
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    Tarquin and Lucretia (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
    Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting by Titian completed in 1571, when the artist was in his eighties, for Philip II of Spain. It is signed, and considered...
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    The Feast of Venus (Rubens) (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
    The fourth book (April) of Ovid's Fasti also served as inspiration for Rubens' The Feast of Venus. A portion of the poem describes a women's festival held...
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    Lucretia and Tarquin (Luca Giordano) (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
    Lucretia and Tarquin (Italian: Lucrezia e Tarquinio) is a 1663 oil painting by Luca Giordano of the legendary rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquin, as told...
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    Ovid (redirect from Nux (poem))
    on the Fasti, a six-book poem in elegiac couplets on the theme of the calendar of Roman festivals and astronomy. The composition of this poem was interrupted...
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    "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the world...
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  • Book of Days may refer to: Fasti (poem), known in English as the "Book of Days", a Latin poem by Ovid Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers The Wicca...
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    Lucrezia (opera) (category Works based on Fasti (poem))
    William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, itself based heavily on Ovid's Fasti. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed...
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