by Ovidio · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437613819
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«Metamorfosis» is Ovid's epic-mythological poem, published by Ediciones Cátedra in its Letras Universales collection, in paperback, with 832 pages in Spanish.
A masterpiece of Latin literature, «Metamorfosis» brings together nearly 250 myths and legends from classical antiquity in which gods, animals, inanimate beings and, above all, human beings undergo prodigious transformations. The poem interweaves these stories into a continuous narrative that runs from the origin of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar, combining heroism, comedy, novel and elegy with a tone that has fascinated readers for centuries.
Annotated and translated edition, suitable for students and readers who want to approach classical mythology through one of its fundamental texts.
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.
