by Ovide · Larousse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782035846396
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«Les Métamorphoses» is a selection of passages from Ovid's epic poem, published by Larousse in paperback (143 pages, in French).
«Les Métamorphoses» brings together a selection of the most celebrated myths of Greco-Roman antiquity. In each tale, a transformation undergone or desired changes gods, heroes, or mortals and reminds them that they are subject to the power of the divinities. Among the passages are the flight of Icarus, Orpheus's descent into the underworld, and the journeys of Ulysses.
The book belongs to the Petits Classiques Larousse collection, number 126. The complete poem, Metamorphoseon libri XV, was written in Latin in AD 8.
This school edition is intended for secondary students studying French and for readers who wish to discover the classical myths in French.
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.
