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Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Inbunden, 2014
310 kr
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Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designOvid's sensuous and witty poetry brings …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid, E. J. Kenney
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and …
Metamorphoses
Ovid's Epic Poem, Translated by Great English Authors and Poets of the 18th Century
Av Ovid, Alexander Pope m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
241 kr
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Fasti
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2013
158 kr
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'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 …
Metamorphoses
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2023
348 kr
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Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in …
Fall of Icarus
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
60 kr
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'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black …
Heroides
Av Ovid
Häftad, 1990
152 kr
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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 …
Metamorphoses
A New Translation
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2005
207 kr
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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 times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2007
152 kr
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Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Inbunden, 2013
203 kr
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One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid’s sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet’s own time through a series of transformation myths in which …
Metamorphoses
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Ovid, Charles Martin
Häftad, 2009
248 kr
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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 …
Heroides (Heroines)
Häftad, 2027
142 kr
Kommande
'They say your ship has docked in Thessalyand you're enriched with the golden fleece.Let me congratulate you on your safe return,but I'd rather have learned of it from a letter.'Ovid's Heroides (Heroines) is a unique collection of fictional letters, written by an outstanding poet of the Augustan …
Remedia A Moris or, The Remedy Of Love
''The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all''''
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2019
20 kr
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Publius Ovidius Naso but better known to us as simply Ovid was born on 20th March 43 BC in Sulmo (modern day Sulmona) in Italy. He was educated in rhetoric in Rome in preparation for the practice of Law. Accounts of his character say that he was emotional and not able to stay within the …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Inbunden, 2022
389 kr
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A bold, transformative new translation of Ovid's classicOvid's epic poem has, with its timeless stories, inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the flight of Icarus, the music of Orpheus, Perseus' …
Art of Love
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2012
98 kr
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The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need to know about where to meet a new beau, how …
Erotic Poems
Av Ovid
Häftad, 1982
256 kr
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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 …
Art of Love
The Art of Love
Av Ovid
Häftad, 2021
84 kr
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“The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
Inbunden, 2003
792 kr
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Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. In this …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid, Madeleine Forey
Häftad, 2002
215 kr
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Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars. First published in 1567, this landmark …
Fasti
Av Ovid, Anthony J Boyle m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
179 kr
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Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore …
Fall of Icarus
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2004
96 kr
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'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of …
Heroides
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2004
108 kr
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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 …
Fasti
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2004
121 kr
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Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore …
Erotic Poems
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2004
102 kr
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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 …
Metamorphoses
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2006
147 kr
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Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars. First published in 1567, this landmark …
Serpent's Teeth
Av Ovid
E-bok, 2006
57 kr
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In a world of gods and monsters, nothing is as it seems.When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is …
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid
Av Ovid
Häftad, 1995
328 kr
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Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid — is revealed anew. Savage and sophisticated, …
