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The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals...
3) The Fasti
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"The Fasti" was believed to have been left incomplete when Ovid was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD. The work, which is structured based on the Roman calendar, is a series of elegiac couplets which present the first-hand accounts of vates, or "poet-prophets" with Roman deities regarding the origin of various Roman holidays and associated customs. The first six months of the year are all that is included in the work and it is unclear...
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Ovids Lehrgedicht über die Kunst der Verführung gehört bis heute zu den berühmtesten und meistgelesenen Werken der antiken Literatur. Die ersten beiden Bücher enthalten Anweisungen für das Verhalten der Männer, das dritte solche für Frauen. Die "Ars amatoria" spiegelt das gesellschaftliche Leben der Kaiserzeit, in der die Liebe häufig als Spiel aufgefasst wurde. Kaiser Augustus hat das Werk aus den öffentlichen Bibliotheken verbannt.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before―sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious―from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis,...
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L'une des plus célèbres oeuvres de l'Antiquité en numérique.
Poèmes de narration mythologique, Les Métamorphoses est l'œuvre majeure d'Ovide. Ces poèmes sont composés de 15 Chants (environ 12 000 vers) entre l'an I et sans doute l'an IX ou X. Ce sont des récits issus de la mythologie grecque et romaine, Ovide décrit avec soin les transformations des dieux et des hommes en animaux, plantes ou pierres depuis la création du monde jusqu'au...
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid (8 AD) is an epic poem by Ovid. Published the same year, the poet was, sent into exile for the rest of his life, the Metamorphoses are the crowning achievement of the first major poet of the Roman empire. Written in dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and of Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's work is an epic poem of transformations, of shape-shifting matter and beings bound to the power of love. Taking as its...
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The Lover's Assistant; or, New Art of Love (1760) is an updated translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) by English satirist Henry Fielding. Divided into three books, Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love was immensely popular-if a little controversial-in its time, and has survived numerous charges of indecency over the centuries. For the modern reader, it should prove a surprisingly relatable work on intimacy from an author of the...
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"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne
Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. A sequel...
10) The Amores
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"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne
The Amores (16 BC) is a book of love elegies by Ovid. Divided into three books, The...
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"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne
Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. Divided into...
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