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Metamorphoses
[Paperback - 2009]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | ISBN: 9780393925340 | Pages: 592
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This book offers a translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis, accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and commentary, as well as five interpretations by Bernard Knox, J.R.R. Mackail, Norman O. Brown, Italo Calvino, and Diane Middlebrook.

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary ofVirgilandHoratius, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholarQuintilianconsidered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today.

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