by Ovidi · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419013170
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Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Roman mythology with Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' a masterpiece of universal poetry. In this Catalan edition, the magic of transformation stories comes to life, narrating the changes of gods, men, and women into animals, plants, or minerals from the origins of the world to the apotheotic transformation of Julius Caesar's soul into a star. Ovid's verses, light and sensual, display the poet's talent, erudition, and fantasy, consolidating the entire mythological tradition into an essential vademecum for lovers of classical literature and artists of all eras.
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.
