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Edition and commentary providing both students and scholars with the background and guidance needed to understand and appreciate Ovid's poetry of exile, which remains as... Læs mere
Classical scholar Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) studied at Balliol College, Oxford, under... Læs mere
A commentary on seven of Ovid's twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse.
"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rodin’s astonishingly free and improvisatory woodcuts, made in his later years.
A translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
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 gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love.
This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the calendar in the light of old annals, and to show what events are commemorated on each day and the origins of the various events.