by Publio Ovidio Nasón, Lucio Apuleyo · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422612070
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«El arte de amar / El asno de oro» brings together the didactic poem by Publio Ovidio Nasón and the novel by Lucio Apuleyo, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback.
«El arte de amar» is a didactic poem in which Ovidio reflects on love relationships and courtship in ancient Rome, combining irony, mythology and practical observations. «El asno de oro», also called «Las metamorfosis», tells the story of Lucio, a young man transformed into a donkey who experiences numerous adventures with different owners and witnesses comic and ruthless scenes before regaining his human form.
Volume published in 1980, with 412 pages in Spanish, including a preliminary essay by Francisco Umbral and the translation from Latin by Lisardo Rubio Fernández.
Aimed at readers of Latin classics and those interested in the Clásicos Universales collection.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
