Metamorphosen. Die berühmtesten Verwandlungsgeschichten: Ovid – Prosaübersetzung des Klassikers antiker Literatur (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)

by Ovid

Die Weltgeschichte von der Schöpfung bis in die eigene Zeit – erzählt in einem einzigen fortlaufenden Gedicht von rund 12.000 In Ovids berühmtem Epos entsteht aus Altem immerzu Neues. Pflanzen, Steine, Gestirne, Tiere – alles hat seine Geschichte, zu jedem gibt es eine Erklärung, einen Mythos. Die berühmtesten dieser Verwandlungsgeschichten begegnen uns immer wieder in der bildenden Kunst; in dieser Ausgabe lassen sie sich in einer Prosaübersetzung entdecken. 

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 17, 2022

About the author

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horatius, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today.

Reviews

[Flo Rind · Rating 5 out of 5]

„geboren werden heißt beginnen, etwas anderes sein als vorher, und sterben heißt aufhören, das selbe zu sein“

die metamorphosen bleiben stabil, credits an ovid für wirklich jede Geschichte die sich je ein europäischer nach ihm ausgedacht hat. wünschte es gäbe eine Reclam Version mit den ungekürzten metamorphosen!