by Ovid · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070385645
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«Les Métamorphoses» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Folio in paperback (640 pages, in French).
Composed in twelve thousand verses, it brings together two hundred and thirty-one stories of metamorphoses ranging from the origin of the world to the age of Julius Caesar, with episodes oscillating between horror, the fantastic and the love elegy. It is one of the main sources of Western literature and the arts.
Epic and didactic poem in fifteen books, originally in Latin («Metamorphoseon libri XV»). French edition by Jean-Pierre Néraudau, with translation by Georges Lafaye, in the Folio classique collection.
For readers of classical literature, poetry and Greco-Roman mythology, as well as for those who want to discover a key work of Western culture.
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.
