by Ovid · Pallas Athene · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843680260
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«Elegies of Love» is Ovid's love poetry collection, published by Pallas Athene in paperback (64 pages, in English).
A selection of Ovid's love elegies in Christopher Marlowe's English translation, accompanied by 31 nude drawings that Auguste Rodin made at the end of his life. Rodin's free, improvised line dialogues with the passion and eroticism of the verses, in an edition that unites classical poetry and modern art.
Published on 15 June 2007; includes 31 illustrations by Rodin and Christopher Marlowe's translation.
For readers interested in classical poetry and Auguste Rodin's graphic work.
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.
