The Metamorphoses of Ovid
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| Management number | 201807557 | Release Date | 2025/10/08 | List Price | $12.90 | Model Number | 201807557 | ||
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The first taste of books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. This language was my mother tongue, and the easiest book I knew and the best suited to my tender age.
Format: Hardback
Length: 694 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press
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.
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 Homers Iliad and Odyssey and of Virgils Aeneid ,Ovids work is an epic poem of transformations,of shape-shifting matter and beings bound to the power of love. Taking as its scope the whole history of the universe from the arrangement of order from chaos to the death of Julius Caesar,the Metamorphoses pays heed to desires ability to enact long-lasting and at times irreversible change.
The story begins at the very beginning,with the creation of the cosmos out of nothing,of order out of unimaginable chaos. Gods and goddesses have their moment in the sun,mankind is born only to be wiped out by an immense flood,then to rise again. Amidst countless little-known descriptions of war,romance,and change are the timeless tales of Perseus,Jason and Medea,Theseus and the Minotaur,and the labors of Hercules. Icarus soars too close to the sun. Orpheus tragically condemns Eurydice to the underworld. Troy is built and destroyed,the immortal Achilles is killed,and Aeneas sets sail to save his life and lay the foundations for Rome itself. Throughout these interwoven stories of individual and epochal change,Ovid explores the inescapability of lov.
Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781513134710
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