The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses: With A Literal Interlinear Translation, And Illustrative Notes (1828)

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Kessinger Publishing, 2009 - 110 pages
The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses is a literary work published in 1828 that includes a literal interlinear translation and illustrative notes. The book is authored by Ovid, a Latin poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. The Metamorphoses is a collection of myths and legends from Greek and Roman mythology, and the first book contains stories of creation, the four ages of man, the flood, and the story of Apollo and Daphne. The literal interlinear translation provides a word-for-word translation of the Latin text, making it easier for readers to understand the original language. The illustrative notes offer additional context and explanations of the myths and legends. This book is ideal for students of Latin, as well as anyone interested in classical mythology and literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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About the author (2009)

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible.

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