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«Les Métamorphoses» is a selection of Latin extracts from Ovid's work, published by Hachette in paperback.
The Metamorphoses is one of the great works of Latin literature: a long narrative poem collecting fables from Greco-Roman mythology, almost all centred on a transformation. This edition brings together a selection of passages in Latin that offers a glimpse into Ovid's mythical universe and his poetic style.
1994 edition from Hachette Éducation. The Latin text has numbered lines and is accompanied by a French translation, notes, chronology, map and index of proper names.
Aimed at Latin students and readers interested in Greco-Roman mythology.
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.
