by Ovide · Hachette · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782013229036
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«25 Métamorphoses d'Ovide» is a selection of mythological tales by Ovide, published by Hachette in paperback (187 pages, in French).
The volume brings together twenty-five metamorphoses from Greco-Roman mythology narrated by Ovide: the creation of the world, the golden age, the flood, and episodes such as those of Arachne, Echo and Narcissus, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, or Apollo and Daphne. A selection designed to discover the mythical and poetic tales of the Latin author.
Adaptation by Annie Collognat-Barès and cover illustration by Marc Daniau. Belongs to the Livre de Poche Jeunesse collection, number 1270.
Intended for a young audience approaching classical mythology and reading in French through an adapted selection.
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.
