Les Métamorphoses: 17 récits

by Ovid, Caroline Charlet (Editor)

Observez cet arbre dont les feuilles frémissent quand on le touche, ou encore cette fleur qui saigne quand on la cueille : en eux se cachent des êtres humains transformés par les dieux. C'est du moins ce qu'imaginaient les hommes de l'Antiquité, qui expliquaient ainsi les mystères du monde. TOUT POUR COMPRENDRE - Notes lexicales - Biographie de l'auteur - Contexte historique et culturel - Repères chronologiques TOUT POUR RÉUSSIR - Questions sur l'oeuvre - Exercices de vocabulaire - Activités d'écriture - Histoire des arts GROUPEMENTS DE TEXTES - Les personnages que l'on retrouve dans l'Odyssée d'Homère - D'autres métamorphoses dans la littérature CAHIER ICONOGRAPHIQUE.

160 pages, Pocket Book

Published June 24, 2020

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

[Alodis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une belle sélection de mythes connus ou moins connus, avec des découpages intéressants et peu longs où tout l'intérêt de la métamorphose est montré.