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Ovid

    Ausgewählte Fabeln / Metamorphosen und Fasten in Auswahl
    Metamorphosen
    The Art of Love
    25 métamorphoses d'Ovide
    Penguin Classics: The Erotic Poems
    Tusculum: Liebeskunst
    • Penguin Classics: The Erotic Poems

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

      Penguin Classics: The Erotic Poems1982
    • 25 métamorphoses d'Ovide

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      La creation du monde et la naissance de l'homme, l'age d'or, le deluge, l'orgueil d'Arachne, Echo et Narcisse, Dedale et Icare, Orphee et Eurydice, Apollon et Daphne. Des recits mythiques et poetiques qui fascinent l'homme en quete des ses origines. Cette edition originale propose de decouvrir vingt-cinq histoires de metamorphoses parmi les plus representatives de l'oeuvre d'Ovide.

      25 métamorphoses d'Ovide1977
      3.5
    • The perfect gift for Valentine's DayTRANSLATED BY TOM PAYNE AND INTRODUCED BY HEPHZIBAH ANDERSONThe Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history, and his advice is enduringly useful and entertaining.

      The Art of Love1927
      3.6