by Ovide · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070308712
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«Les Métamorphoses: Livres X, XI et XII» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (214 pages, in French).
Volume covering books X, XI and XII of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a poem that strings together myths of classical antiquity in which gods transform mortals and heroes. Among the stories included are those of Pygmalion, Adonis and Midas, with their imagery of metamorphosis and legend.
Folio Plus Classique collection (no. 55); complete text, translation by Georges Lafaye, dossier by Pouneh Mochiri and image reading by Alain Jaubert.
Intended for literature students and readers wishing to approach Greco-Latin myths with didactic support.
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.
