'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards... 'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian...
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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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...
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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...
A literal English prose translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. With copious footnotes...
Contains BOTH the original Latin text of Ovid's Ars Amatoria AND a literal English prose translation with copious footnotes...
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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...
'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...
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...
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...
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Die 'Metamorphosen' sind das Opus Magnum Ovids und gelten neben der 'Aeneis' Vergils als das bedeutendste literarische Werk der römischen Antike. Die rund 250 Verwandlungssagen,...
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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...
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,...
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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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A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love-a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of loveBreakups are the worst. On one scale devised by...
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One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches...
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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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Translated by Charles Martin...
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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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...
Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed...
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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...
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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"The most beautiful book in the English language. " -- Ezra Pound...
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