Metamorfosis

by Ovid, Consuelo Álvarez (Editor, Translator), Rosa María Iglesias (Editor, Translator)

Las Metamorfosis constituyen una obra de madurez en la que Ovidio manifiesta toda la experiencia acumulada en su incesante innovación, modificación y actualización de sus modelos literarios en los géneros cultivados hasta entonces. Se llegó a considerer como la Biblia secular de la Edad Media.

En las Metamorfosis cuenta y explica Ovidio la historia de casi 250 mitos y leyendas de la Antigüedad romana y sus diversas transformaciones. Lo que ha mantenido vigente esta obra a lo largo de los siglos ha sido su carácter de fuente de lecturas marivillosas, su poder de encantar que emana de la expresión de su propia época al dotar al mito de elementos de juego y humor, teniendo como auténtico protagonista al hombre y siendo una mezcla, tan verdadera como la vida misma, de heroísmo, comedia, novela y elegía.

Genres: Classics, Poetry, Mythology, Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Greek Mythology

824 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 8

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.