Ovid: Select Passages From The Metamorphoses (Classic Reprint)

North Pinder

ISBN 10: 1527876810 / ISBN 13: 9781527876811

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2024

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Print on Demand. This book is divided into 15 chapters and explores the theme of transformation, delving into Greek and Latin writings on the subject. The author takes an almost scientific approach to their philosophical, religious, and mythological analysis, resulting in a considered and comprehensive work. The author presents a range of accounts of werewolves, shape shifters, and even gods, alongside explanations of the meanings people gave to these transformations and the contexts in which they occurred. These transformations are not only physical but mental, encompassing not only external change but also the constant state of change that makes up reality. This fascinating book concludes that metamorphosis is a fundamental aspect of existence and is present in both the human and natural worlds. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: Ovid: Select Passages From The Metamorphoses (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1527876810
• ISBN 13: 9781527876811
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Latin

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Excerpt from Ovid: Select Passages From The Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, composed (probably for recitation) about the same time as the Fasti just before his banishment in 8 a.d., contain a series of such Greek and Latin legends as involve processes of Imm farmatz'on, extending from the creation of the world to the change of Julius Caesar into a star. The outline and materials of the poem were perhaps derived from the 'efepocofipeva of Nicander [b.c. 185 and a similar work by Parthenius, the Greek preceptor of Virgil; but the grouping and treatment, the style, sentiment, and versification of the Metamorphoses are eminently characteristic of Ovid's genius. The work never received the final touch of its author, who, like Virgil, would fain have burnt his masterpiece, rather than let it descend to posterity incomplete and un revised.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.