by Publio Ovidio Nasón · Espasa-Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423913268
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«Las metamorfosis» is the epic poem by Publio Ovidio Nasón, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (267 pages, in Spanish).
Narrative poem that brings together more than two hundred stories from Greco-Roman mythology, linked by the common theme of transformation: from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Caesar. Includes episodes such as those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, or Pygmalion.
The edition belongs to the Austral Collection and includes translation and notes by Federico Sainz de Robles.
Reading for those interested in classical literature, Greco-Roman mythology, and epic poetry.
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.
