by Ovid · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080720924
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«Les Métamorphoses» is a selection of passages from Ovid's narrative poem, published by Flammarion in paperback (127 pages, in French).
In the complete poem, Ovid traces the history of the world from creation to the deification of Julius Caesar through more than 250 myths organised into fifteen books. Its unifying thread is metamorphosis: gods, heroes and mortals transform into animals, plants or stars, and these stories explain the origins of realities of the ancient world.
It is part of the Étonnants Classiques collection from GF Flammarion; the edition, prepared by Sabine Roy-Herquin, includes an introduction and a didactic dossier.
This school edition is designed for a first reading of Ovid 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.
