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...
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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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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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...
'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...
In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE 17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters to absent husbands and lovers. Ovid s Amores are three books...
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A literal English prose translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. With copious footnotes...
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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'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...
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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
Translated by Charles Martin...
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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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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"The most beautiful book in the English language. " -- Ezra Pound...
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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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