by Publius Ovidius Naso · Anaconda Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783938484074
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«Metamorphosen» is Ovid's epic poem, published by Anaconda Verlag in hardcover (320 pages, in German).
This epic poem brings together around 250 tales from Greco-Roman mythology, reaches back to the creation myths and narrates in verse the transformations of gods, heroes and mortals with great narrative vividness.
Translation from the Latin by Johann Heinrich Voß, in the Anaconda Antike collection; edition published on March 31, 2005.
For readers interested in Greco-Roman mythology, epic poetry and classical 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.
