Fasti (Ovid)(Paperback)

Fasti (Ovid)(Paperback)

'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and

Fasti (Ovid)(Pevná vazba)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

In 'The Metamorphoses', Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the

Heroides (Ovid)(Paperback)

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful

Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: A Selection of Love Poetry(Paperback / softback)

15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid (Various Various)(Paperback)

Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines. They were the women left in the wake of those swaggering heroes of classical mythology: Theseus,

The Love Poems (Ovid)(Paperback)

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature 'The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's).' -Ezra Pound Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh

The Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

' . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique.' --Virginia Quarterly

Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 6-10 (Anderson William S.)(Paperback)

Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson's skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is

Erotic Poems (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The

Elegies of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

Near the end of his life, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) began creating astonishingly an improvisatory and free life drawings. First published in a very limited edition in 1939, 31 of these drawings are paired here with selected Love Elegies from Ovid, one of Rodin's favorite authors. With Christopher

Tristia. Ex Ponto (Ovid)(Pevná vazba)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of

Ovid, Heroides: A Selection (Tsaknaki Christina)(Paperback)

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides I lines 1-68, and Heroides VII lines 1-140, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be

Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre (Starks Lisa)(Paperback)

Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of Ovid Applies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmediality Uses adaptation studies in

Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition (Ovid)(Paperback)

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before--sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious--from the fall of Troy

Latin Verb Tenses (Prior Richard)(Paperback)

If, as the immortal Ovid wrote, abeunt studia in mores ('earnest study passes into habit'), then meditor planto perficio ('practice makes perfect')! This workbook, authored by the late professor Richard Prior, offers the practice necessary to master Latin verbs--regular or irregular--with their

Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

It may have been written in the days of chariot races, gladiators, and emperors, but this new translation of the best teacher in history on the subject of love contains enduringly useful and entertaining adviceAre you a sought-after dreamboat forever turning down invitations from attractive

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction (Morgan Llewelyn)(Paperback)

Vivam is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: I shall live. If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (Maclaughlin Nina)(Paperback)

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people's tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I'll tell it myself. Seductresses and