| #275065 in Books | 1984 | 1916-01-31 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 1.14 x4.51 x6.61l,.78 | File type: PDF | 496 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent if occasionally archaic parallel translation|By I. Whatley|The left page has the original in Latin and the right has an English translation. The set up of the text and plenty of line numbering allows you to easily track the corresponding phrases. There are occasionally some English words or phrases that sound old fashioned which is hardly a surprise since this is a tr|About the Author|At the time of his death G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Latin Language and Literature, Yale University, and Editor Emeritus of the Loeb Classical Library®.
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, leadi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library, No. 42) | Ovid. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
