by Ovidio · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420636443
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«Metamorfosis» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (616 pages, in Spanish).
Narrative poem that unfolds an extensive gallery of Greco-Roman mythological tales centered on metamorphosis: gods, heroes and mortals change form across its nearly twelve thousand hexameters. Figures such as Phaethon, Pygmalion and Narcissus parade through its pages, in a work that has become a key reference of classical mythology for later culture.
Belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca de Clásicos de Grecia y Roma (no. 8202). Translation and notes by Antonio Ramírez de Verger and Fernando Navarro Antolín.
Recommended for readers of classics and poetry, as well as for those who wish to delve into Greco-Roman mythology.
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.
