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The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladiesby Peter Green, OvidISBN 0140443606 (0-14-044360-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies'Book summary: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 intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love", with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies", an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. [via]
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Fastiby Ovid , A. J. Boyle, Roger D. WoodardISBN 0140446907 (0-14-044690-7)
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Heroidesby Ovid , A. J. Boyle, Roger D. WoodardISBN 0140423559 (0-14-042355-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroides'Book summary: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 Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too eagerly leaving her bed to follow his destiny, and Sappho the only historical figure portrayed here describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon. In the poetic letters between Paris and Helen the lovers seem oblivious to the tragedy prophesied for them, while in another exchange the youthful Leander asserts his foolhardy eagerness to risk his life to be with his beloved Hero. [via]
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The Love Poemsby Ovid , A.D. MelvilleISBN 0192821946 (0-19-282194-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Poems'Book summary:Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - providing they stick to Ovid's rules. Under the surface of Ovid's wit there runs an undercurrent of serious meaning: the theme of the poet's complete control of his medium and his art and a proud consciousness of his achievements. His claim to be `the Virgil of elegy' is arrestingly justified in these extraordinarily accomplished poems. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small revisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement. This book is intended for general; students from 6th Form upwards following courses on Latin literature, classical literature, European literature, and comparative literature. [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid , Arthur Golding, Madeleine ForeyISBN 0140422307 (0-14-042230-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphoses'Book summary:The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, "Golding's Metamorphoses" (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This robustly vernacular version adds a Christian moral framework, clarifies obscurities and gives an English flavour to the rustic settings, thus making readily available to later writers a treasure-trove of comic, eerie and erotic tales. [via]
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- The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0140440585 (0-14-044058-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192816918 (0-19-281691-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Metamorphoses: ISBN 0140422307 (0-14-042230-7)
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- The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0140440585 (0-14-044058-5)
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Metamorphosesby Ovid , Arthur Golding, Madeleine ForeyISBN 014044789X (0-14-044789-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphoses'Book summary:[via]Ovids 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 Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
- Includes introduction, a preface to each book, explanatory notes, and an index of people, gods, and places
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translationby Ovid , Allen MandelbaumISBN 0151705291 (0-15-170529-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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Orpheus in the Underworldby Ovid , Mary M. InnesISBN 0146001907 (0-14-600190-7)
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Ovid in Englishby Ovid , Christopher MartinISBN 0140446699 (0-14-044669-9)
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Ovid's 'Heroides'by Ovid , Harold Charles CannonISBN 0048740020 (0-04-874002-0)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin, Limited
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The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Lettersby Ovid , Peter GreenISBN 0140444076 (0-14-044407-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters'Book summary:One of the wittiest Roman poets, Ovid (43BC - 17 or 18 AD) was banished in 8AD to Constanza, a remote barbarous outpost on the Black Sea, for an unknown crime against the Emperor Augustus. Pouring out polished verse, appealing for a pardon that never came, and describing the horrors of the land to which he had been exiled, he continued to write there until his death in 17AD. His poems in exile consist of "Tristia" (poems of lamentation) and the "Episulae Ex Ponto" (Black Sea letters) mostly short elegies or poems in defence of his career ("Tristia II"); and the "Ibis", a venemous sustained elegaic curse of an unknown enemy. [via]
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The Serpent's Teethby Ovid , Mary M. InnesISBN 0141026359 (0-14-102635-9)
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