Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The creation of the universe and birth of mankind. The great flood and the rise of a new natural order. The loves, battles, and transgressions of the gods. The stories of Narcissus, Jason and Medea, Orpheus and Eurydice, and the labors of Hercules. If nothing at all, Ovid's Metamorphoses are the story of everything, an immortal poem, an everlasting human achievement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513285238
• Artikelnr.: 62100438

Autorenporträt

Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) was a Roman poet. Born in Sulmo the year after Julius Caesar's assassination, Ovid would join the ranks of Virgil and Horace to become one of the foremost poets of Augustus' reign as first Roman emperor. After rejecting a life in law and politics, he embarked on a career as a poet, publishing his first work, the Heroides, in 19 BC. This was quickly followed by his Amores (16 BC), a collection of erotic elegies written to his lover Corinna. By 8 AD, Ovid finished his Metamorphoses, an epic narrative poem tracing the history of Rome and the world from the creation of the cosmos to the death and apotheosis of Julius Caesar. Ambitious and eminently inspired, Metamorphoses remains a timeless work of Roman literature and an essential resource for the study of classical languages and mythology. Exiled that same year by Augustus himself, Ovid spent the rest of his life in Tomis on the Black Sea, where he continued to write poems of loss, repentance and longing.