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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674990471

ISBN-139780674990470

eBay Product ID (ePID)58085

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Edition2

Book TitleMetamorphoses, Volume II : Books 9-15

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1916

TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ancient & Classical, Life Sciences / Biology

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry, Fiction, Science

AuthorOvid

Book SeriesLoeb Classical Library

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length0.7 in

Item Width0.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Series Volume Number43

Volume Number4

Table Of ContentPreface to the Second Edition Bibliographical Addendum Metamorphoses Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Book XIII Book XIV Book XV Index

SynopsisOvid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes., In his most influential work, the Metamorphoses , Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths, which are connected by the theme of change and ingeniously linked as the narrative proceeds from earliest creation to transformation in Ovid's own time., The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

LC Classification NumberPA6825