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Amores by Ovid; Tom Bishop (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Fyfield Bks.
Ovid (c. 43 BC-AD17), a daring, original and passionate poet, has been an enduring influence on later poets.Amoresis the work that first made Ovid famous, and infamous. A scandal in its day, and probably in part responsible for Ovid's banishment from Rome,Amoreslays bare the intrigues and appetites of h ...Show more
Elegies Of Love by Ovid Rodin Illus
Category: Poetry
- Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rodin's astonishingly free and improvisatory woodcuts, made in his later years Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his ...Show more
Fall of Icarus: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #73 by Ovid
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classi ...Show more
Fasti by Ovid
Category: Fiction
This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the calendar in the light of old annals, and to show what events are commemorated on each day and the origins of the various events.
Heroides by Ovid
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope w ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses", completed around 8AD, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation.
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses was the first major English version and brought Ovid to ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Fiction
One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Stephanie McCarter (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is accompanied ...Show more