Ovid Loeb Classic Library 6 volume set

Ovid, G.P. Goold (reviser), Grant Showerman (Volume 1 Translator), J.H. Mozley (Volume 2 Translator), Frank Justus Miller (Volume 3 and 4 Translator), James G. Frazer (Volume 5 Translator), A.L. Wheeler (Volume 6 Translator)

ISBN 10: 0674990455 / ISBN 13: 9780674990456

Published by Harvard University Press, 2002

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16mo, 17 cm x 11.5 cm, Volume 1: 527 pp., Volume 2: 381 pp., Volume 3: 467 pp., Volume 4: 499 pp., Volume 5: 459 pp., Volume 6: 511 pp. Volume 1 covers "Heroides and Amores" and has the CLC of 41, Volume 2 covers "The Art of Love and Other Poems" and has a CLC of 232, Volume 3 covers "Metamorphoses I" and has a CLC of 42, Volume 4 covers "Metamorphoses IX-XV" and has a CLC of 43, Volume 5 covers "Fasti" and has a CLC of 253, Volume 6 covers "Trista and Ex Ponto" and has a CLC of 151. Volume 1 has a tear on the top of the dust jacket spine and some chipping on the top of the inner flaps of the dust jackets. The top of the spine of the book has some rounding. Volume 2 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket and Volume 3 has some chipping at the top of the dust jacket spine. Volume 4 has wear on the dust jacket and Volume 5 has an old price sticker across the ISBN code. Volume 6 has a sticker across the ISBN code and a small white chip on the middle of the dust jacket spine. All of the volumes contain both Latin and English text. Volume 1: Fine, Volume 2: Fine, Volume 3: Fine, Volume 4: Fine, Volume 5: Fine, Volume 6: Fine Volume 1: Very good, Volume 2: Near fine, Volume 3: Near fine, Volume 4: Near fine, Volume 5: Near fine, Volume 6: Near fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ovid Loeb Classic Library 6 volume set
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0674990455
• ISBN 13: 9780674990456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Loeb Classic Library.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.

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 Author

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).