Persée et autres métamorphoses: 14 récits mythologiques

by Ovid, Pascale Philberg, Bertrand Louët (Editor)

L'ouvrage rassemble 14 Mtamorphoses : des rcits qui mettent en scne des dieux et des hros clbres, tels Apollon, Icare ou Perse. Le lecteur y assiste, mdus, toutes sortes de mtamorphoses, qu'inspire l'amour ou qu'impose un chtiment.A travers ces fables merveilleuses, Ovide nous fait entrer de plain pied dans le monde lgendaire de l'Antiquit.L'dition Classiques & Cie CollgeSoigneusement annot, le texte des lgendes est associ un dossier illustr, qui comprend :- un guide de lecture, avec des repres, un parcours de l'oeuvre en 7 tapes, un groupement de documents sur le mythe de Narcisse,- une enqute documentaire : "Comment les Romains vivaient avec leurs Dieux ".

128 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2011

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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.