by Ovide · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080722560
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«Les Métamorphoses» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Flammarion in paperback (118 pages, in French).
The poem narrates, through a series of interwoven tales, the transformations of gods and heroes of Greco-Roman mythology, linking Greek myths before and after Homer with the Roman legends of Ovid's time. This edition collects extracts from the French text of the work, with notable mythical episodes from the classical tradition.
This extract edition belongs to Flammarion's Étonnants Classiques collection and was published in 2006; the original work is Metamorphoseon libri XV.
Suitable for high school students and readers new to the classics in French.
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.
