The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses: With a Literal Interlinear Translation, and Illustrative Notes (1828)

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Kessinger Publishing, 2009 - 112 páginas
The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses is a literary work by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, translated into English in 1828. This edition includes a literal interlinear translation, which provides a word-for-word interpretation of the original Latin text alongside the English translation. The book also includes illustrative notes, which offer additional context and explanation for readers. The Metamorphoses is a collection of myths and legends from ancient Greek and Roman mythology, exploring themes of transformation, love, and power. This translation of the first book of the Metamorphoses offers readers a chance to explore Ovid's vivid and imaginative storytelling in a clear and accessible format.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible.

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