by Ovidio · Editorial Juventud, S.A. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788426125927
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«Las Metamorfosis» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Editorial Juventud in paperback (366 pages, in Spanish).
Epic poem in fifteen books, considered a masterpiece of Latin literature, bringing together 246 mythological legends. Ovid narrates how ancient characters and objects acquire new forms, from the origin of the cosmos to the arrival of Julius Caesar, combining Greek and Roman myths in a single narrative.
Fourth edition within the Clásicos collection from Editorial Juventud. The author appears on the cover as Publio Ovidio Nasón.
For lovers of classical literature and Greco-Roman mythology, especially those interested in 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.
