by Publio Ovidio Nason · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432040344
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«Las metamorfosis» is the epic poem by Publio Ovidio Nason, published by Planeta in paperback (651 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of over two hundred Greco-Roman myths in chronological order, from the origin of the world to the poet's era. The common thread is metamorphosis: gods and mortals change form through loves, punishments, or divine interventions. Includes myths such as Apollo and Daphne, Echo and Narcissus, and Pyramus and Thisbe.
1989 edition with introduction and notes by Juan Francisco Alcina.
For those interested in classical mythology and students of Latin literature; the introduction and notes facilitate understanding of the 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.
