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Book SynopsisPublius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17) was a Roman poet, born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. Born into a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held some minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming one of the most distinguished poet of his time. His works include
Amores, a collection of short love poems;
Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers;
Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love; and
Metamorphoses, his epic work on change.
John Godwin is Head of Classics, Shrewsbury School. His works include
Lucretius (Bloomsbury, Ancients in Action series),
Reading Catullus, and large-scale editions of the poetry of Catullus and Lucretius.
Trade Reviewan extremely useful and stimulating tool for future high school students and indeed for anyone in need of a guide when approaching this thrilling section of the Metamorphoses in the original ... Godwin has successfully accomplished the very difficult task of introducing students and new readers to a text which, in all its self-reflexivity, is always much more complex than it appears at first glance. -- Elena Giusti, King’s College Cambridge, UK * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: - Why read this text? - Ovid and his Times - Epic Poetry and the Metamorphoses - Book 3- Bacchus - Pentheus - Acoetes - The Metre of the Poem - Further Reading Text Commentary Vocabulary
