Metamorphoses

Author(s)

• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
• Miller, Frank Justus, b. 1858
• Goold, G. P.

Bibliographic Information

Metamorphoses

Ovid ; with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller

（The Loeb classical library, 42-43 . Ovid ; 3-4）

Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1977

3rd ed. / rev. by G.P. Goold

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2 : us
• 2 : uk

Other Title

Metamorphoses : in two volumes

Ovid : in six volumes

Note

Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

1994 printing of [v.] 1 published by Harvard University Press only

Contents: 1. Books I-VIII -- 2. Books IX-XV

Bibliography: [v.] 1, p. xv-xvi

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE 17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

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Details

• NCID: BA04383404
• ISBN:
  • 0674990463
  • 0434990426
  • 0674990471
  • 0434990434
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: lateng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,London
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDLC : KE211
  • NDLC : KR26
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Translations, English
  • LCSH : Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
  • LCSH : Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
  • LCSH : Narrative poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115