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Old 05-30-2007, 01:24 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by All-American View Post
Since we're on the kick for ancient bestsellers, I'm putting in a plug for Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a very unpretentious poem meant to tell the story of everything, in a "continuous thread of words, from the world's first origins to my own time."
I love Ovid. The guy is great. I must say, though, I find Ovid very pretentious (delightfully so).
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