by Ovide · POCHE JEUNESSE · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782010009068
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«25 métamorphoses d'Ovide» is the collection of classical mythology tales by Ovide, published by Livre de Poche Jeunesse in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Twenty-five stories of transformation by the Roman poet, adapted for young readers, cover the creation of the world and of the first men, the golden age, the flood, and myths such as those of Arachne, Echo and Narcissus, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, or Apollo and Daphne, with gods, heroes, and fabulous creatures.
Aimed at young readers from around 11 years old who are approaching Greco-Roman myths for the first time.
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.
