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Ovid
Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including…
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Ovid’s witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and…
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Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke…
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Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation.
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Publius Ovidius Naso
The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a striking translation. In this tour de force, all the…
Tommaso Spinelli
Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius' poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebaid, suggesting that the poem reworks both Virgil and Ovid's politically loaded…
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Pierre Bersuire
Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It contains descriptions of…
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Harry Liuhan
This book is a carefully selected collection of stories by Ovid, presented with the original Latin text alongside an English translation. Its purpose is to offer a more engaging and…
Ted Hughes,Ovid
The late Poet Laureate presents recreations of 24 passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , including the stories of Phaeton, Actaon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.
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Auguste Ovid
Mostly self-educated, Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favourite books, and Ovid’s Love Elegies occupied a special place in his imagination. These woodcut illustrations were taken from the astonishingly…
Ovid,Ana Sender
Seventeen of Ovid’s enduring stories stunningly illustrated.
Known the world over, Ovid’s canonical work has spanned centuries, never losing its relevance. Retold by award-winning Austrian author Heinz Janisch with transcendent…
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love-a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
Breakups are the worst. On one scale…
Simona Martorana
"Incorporates contemporary feminist theories and provides interdisciplinary perspectives on motherhood within Ovidian works and classical literature more broadly and questions the widely acknowledged dialectic between the (male) voice of the…
Editor
This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3. Aimed at both students and scholars, the translation clarifies…
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Victoria Rimell
A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by…
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…
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary…
The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville’s translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid’s unique and elusive vision of reality.
A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup…
Gareth Williams (Professor)
Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century…
C. Luke Soucy, Ovid
This fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology's foremost source
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly…
A collection of Ovid’s poems that deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. It features poems…
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Celia Campbell
A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem's first pentad draws a programmatic strain of influence from hymns to the gods, in particular conversation-and competition-with…
Ovid Ovid
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Rome’s greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, “Metamorphoses”.
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, Ovid
The compilers, J.C and M.J. Thornton, have used the translations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which they believe render more faithfully than those of any other age the even…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum V6: Cum Notis Anglis (1860) est liber qui continet Fastos, carmen epicum Ovidii Nasonis, quod de mensibus et festis Romanorum narrat. In hoc volumine, Fasti usque…
Und Pl Ovids Nasos Funf Trauerbucher. This Book Is In German.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
