OVID IV: METAMORPHOSES II Books IX-XV

Ovid; Frank Justus Miller & (Rev. by ) G. P. Goold

ISBN 10: 0674990471 / ISBN 13: 9780674990470

Published by Harvard University Press & William Heinemann, 1994

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Small pen mark to textblock. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 43; Vol. 4; 500 pages; Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) , born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: OVID IV: METAMORPHOSES II Books IX-XV
• Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674990471
• ISBN 13: 9780674990470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Weight: 0.8 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Loeb Classical Library

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Synopsis

The poetry of change.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC–AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.

Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

About the Authors

Frank Justus Miller (1858–1938) was Professor of Latin at the University of Chicago.

G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974–1999).