Aeneid By Virgil And Metamorphoses By Ovid With Illustrations By Nicholas Tamblyn And Katherine Eglund Illustrated

Presenting "Aeneid by Virgil and Metamorphoses by Ovid with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund." These classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.The classic translation of the Aeneid is by John Dryden, and of Metamorphoses by John Dryden, Sir Samuel Garth, and others.Virgil, or Publius Vergilius Maro, was born near Mantua in the Roman Republic in 70 BC. He wrote three famed Latin poems: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Since its composition, the Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome; Virgil is said to have recited several books from it to the first Roman Emperor Augustus. He died at the age of 50 in 19 BC.Ovid, or Publius Ovidius Naso, was born in Sulmo, Italy, in 43 BC. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, as well as Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Fasti. With his older contemporaries Virgil and Horace, he is often considered one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Later in life, he was exiled--according to his own words, because of "a poem and a mistake"--by Emperor Augustus to a remote province known as Tomis on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death in AD 17 or 18.

Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples), Venus and Adonis, and Myrrha. This edition contains the Latin text as well as in-depth commentary notes that provide language support, explain difficult words and phrases, highlight literary features and supply background knowledge. The introduction presents an overview of Ovid and the historical and literary context, as well as a plot synopsis and a discussion of the literary genre. Suggested reading is also included.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before—sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious—from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god. In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Ovid was a major Roman poet during the reign of Augustus. Ovid, along with Horace and Virgil, helped form Latin literature as the world came to know it. Ovid's most famous works are The Metamorphoses and his collections of love poetry.The Metamorphoses of Ovid is an epic poem of fifteen books that contain over 250 myths. The stories of The Metamorphoses cover the history of the world from its creation all the way through the time of Julius Caesar. This book has influenced other great authors such as Shakespeare, Dante, and Chaucer.

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written between 29BC and 19BC by Publius Vergilius Maro, commonly known as Virgil (October 15, 70BC to September 21, 19BC). The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings after his people lost the great war to the Greeks, as he and his fellow expatriots make their way from Troy to Italy, with stop-overs for adventures in such places as Hades! The poem's second half tells of the Trojans' war and ultimate victory over the Romans ("Latins"). This edition is from a translation by J.W. MacKail (26 August 1859 - 13 December 1945).

Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses presents a wide variety of brilliant episodes, from the rhetorically charged contest between Ulysses and Ajax over the arms of Achilles, to the tragic tale of Hecuba and her gruesome revenge, to the amusing story of Polyphemus' unrequited love for Galatea and its bloody conclusion. This edition discusses in detail Ovid's treatment of his sources and sets out the ways in which he has adapted earlier literature as material for his novel work. Guidance is offered on points of language and style, and the Introduction treats in general terms the themes of metamorphosis and the structure of the poem as a whole.