by Publio Ovidio Nasón · Promoción y Ediciones. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474614077
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«Las metamorfosis» is the epic poem by Publio Ovidio Nasón, published by Promoción y Ediciones in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
The work chronologically narrates Greco-Roman mythology, from the origin of the world to the author's time, and gathers over two hundred stories of metamorphoses: the loves of Apollo and Daphne, the abduction of Europa, the myth of Echo and Narcissus, or the legend of Pygmalion, key tales of the Western imagination.
The work consists of fifteen books, with the original title Metamorphoseon libri XV. This edition belongs to the collection Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal (no. 88).
A reference work for those who study or enjoy classical mythology and Latin literature.
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.
