I came across this sentence:

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> In Ovid, he is a sculptor and citizen of Cyprus.
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We know Ovid is a poet, and the current author discusses the works of Ovid. Can the preposition ***in*** (“in Ovid”) be used this way, as opposed to something like “in *the works of* Ovid”? I couldn’t find this usage of preposition “in” in my research.

I am asking about the use of "in" in front of "Ovid" in the example sentence. Another example: 

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> In Shelley, romance and politics were given equal importance.
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