Ovid

"Ovid's sensuous and witty poem 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 new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including...

Konrad Beikircher über Ovid "Liebeskunst": Die Schule, die ich in Bozen besuchte, war das Franziskanergymnasium und dieses legte Wert auf Latein und Altgriechisch. Ich gestehe: auch wenn ich kein As war, habe ich beides gerne gemacht. Was mich allerdings damals immer schon belustigt hat, war dieses hölzerne Altphilologen-Deutsch, in dem die Übersetzungen dahergestelzt kamen. Mit dem Abitur war das natürlich erst mal vergessen, bis ich mit zunehmendem...

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was born at Sulmo in central Italy in 43 BC. After holding some minor judicial positions, he abandoned a career in public service for writing, and was soon acknowledged as the leading Roman poet of his generation. But in AD 8 he was suddenly banished by the Emperor Augustus for reasons which remain the subject of much speculation. Despite complaints and pleas to Augustus, and later to his successor, Tiberius, Ovid remained...

"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the Bible. Yet despite it being the magnum opus of Rome's cleverest and most creative poet, centuries of conservative translators have robbed the poem of its subversive force as a book-length exploration...