by Ovide · Belin - Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782701154374
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«Les Métamorphoses» is Ovid's epic poem in a school edition with excerpts, published by Belin - Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
It brings together passages from Ovid's extensive poem about the birth of the Greco-Roman world and the transformations of gods, heroes and mortals. It includes episodes such as Daphne, Echo and Narcissus, Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice or Pygmalion, and addresses the excess of ancient heroes and the meaning of metamorphoses.
Classico Collège collection (no. 37), Textes de l'Antiquité series, for the 6e class. Adapted by Martine Laffon from the translation by Georges Lafaye, with notes and dossier by Juliette Morando.
For 6e students in the French school system and for readers who want to discover classical mythology with a guided edition.
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.
