by Ovidio · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476002506
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This book brings together the works of Ovid, a manual for the seducer, exploring both success and failure in love. Despite being labeled as immoral, these works stand out for their elegance, irony, and literary perfection, leaving a profound mark on later literature. This Akal edition, belonging to the Clásica collection, presents these texts in Spanish, offering a vision of the refined and worldly society of the Latin era.
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.
