by Ovidio · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483074824
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«Mil formas de amor» is a poetry anthology by Ovid, selected and translated by Neus Galí, in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish) from Ediciones Península.
The work brings together poems by Ovid on love understood as a contradictory force: desire, passion, panic, pride and deceit coexist in verses that portray both rapture and the game of love. This perspective has been considered one of the roots of courtly love.
It belongs to the Nuestros Contemporáneos collection (no. 25), published in Barcelona in 2002, and includes an introduction and appendix by Neus Galí; the Spanish text comes from Latin.
Recommended for those seeking an approach to classical Roman poetry and the origins of Western love 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.
