Ovid I: Heroides and Amores. Loeb Classical Library No. 41

Ovid, Translated By Grant Showerman

ISBN 10: 0674990455 / ISBN 13: 9780674990456

Published by Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd, Cambridge, MA and London, 1977

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Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. First printing of the second edition. 1977. In Latin and English. Loeb Classical Library series. Red cloth with dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm text block, light dust speckling to top edge of text block, clean pages, name neatly written at top of front free endpaper, no other markings. The mylar protected dustajcket has some edgewear and surface soil, 2nd edition written neatly on spine, no noteworthy chips or tears. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 048236

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ovid I: Heroides and Amores. Loeb Classical ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd, Cambridge, MA and London

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

About the Author:

G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974-1999).