Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox...
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Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty...
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In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love,...
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and...
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Warum Kaiser Augustus im Jahre 8 n. Chr. Ovid, den damals wohl bekanntesten Dichter Roms, an die Schwarzmeerküste verbannte, liegt bis heute im Dunkeln. Der Poet, der den Rest seines...
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and...
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A literal English prose translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. With copious footnotes...
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Contains BOTH the original Latin text of Ovid's Ars Amatoria AND a literal English prose translation with copious footnotes...
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In the first century a. d. , Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art...
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Ovid's famous mock epic--a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity--is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned...
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"Anderson's book is particularly welcome... (It) fills an important pedagogical and scholarly gap and fills it with very great distinction... An indispensable commentary for undergraduate...
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In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and the Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) writes as from exile in Tomis on the Black sea, appealing to such people as his wife and the emperor...
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and...
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'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing. ' Ovid's poetical calendar of the...
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Ovid's deliciously 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...
Translated by Charles Martin...
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Mary Innes' classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend...
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic...
We have Czech writer Karel Čapek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of literature. His...
This book is translated by Tom Payne. It comes with an introduction by Hephzibah Anderson. The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains...
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A masterpiece of Western culture, "The Metamorphoses" is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. In this modern translation,...
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Now available for the first time in an annotated edition, Rolfe Humphriess legendary translation captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit...
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Ovid's epic poem is one of the most important texts of Western imagination and an inspiration for writers. In his award-winning tranlsation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to...
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Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses...
Amara watches as Daedulus and Icarus fly to freedom on handmade wings. But disaster strikes when Icarus steers too close to the sun ... TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless...
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