43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D Ovid
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"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war,...
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Composed in Latin in the early years of the first century by the Roman poet Ovid, the "Metamorphoses" presents a collection of amazing tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and legend. Michael Simpson's prose translation of Ovid's masterpiece in the rapid and direct American idiom catches the swiftness and clarity of the Latin original. His introduction sketches the poet's life, describes his extant works, discusses his unusual exile to...
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Juventud
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[2002]
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Español
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La obra maestra de Ovidio: Las Metamorfosis, es un poema que retrata la transformación de las personas en animales, ríos y piedras. La narración se centra en el momento de las metamorfosis, no tanto en la vida de las metamorfosis. Escrito en latín y traducido por Bocage, es un poema continuo con transiciones abruptas en los quince libros "Metamorfosis" es una obra literaria fascinante y de gran importancia histórica y cultural. A través de la...
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Oceano Expres
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2020.
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Español
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Clásico multicitado y a menudo mal comprendido, El aret de amar ha sido leído como la obrar irónica que sinn duda su autor visualizó, pero también ha sido objeto del horror y la censura ante el supuesto poderde corrupción de su mensaje, en fechas tan recientes como la primera mitad del siglo XX. En abierta sátira de la tradicón de poesía didáctica de su época. Ovidio escribe un breve tratado que no apunta hacia el mejor comportamiento moral...
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"Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including...
12) Ovid
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Phoenix
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2003.
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English
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was born at Sulmo in central Italy in 43 BC. After holding some minor judicial positions, he abandoned a career in public service for writing, and was soon acknowledged as the leading Roman poet of his generation. But in AD 8 he was suddenly banished by the Emperor Augustus for reasons which remain the subject of much speculation. Despite complaints and pleas to Augustus, and later to his successor, Tiberius, Ovid remained...
16) Fasti
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Penguin Books
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2000.
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English
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"One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid - banished to...
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University of California Press
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[2023]
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English
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"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the Bible. Yet despite it being the magnum opus of Rome's cleverest and most creative poet, centuries of conservative translators have robbed the poem of its subversive force as a book-length exploration...