The Metamorphoses.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12798 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 816 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2009 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800080 |
Classic bilingual collection. Ovid's Metamorphoses (43 BC-17 AD) are a kind of record book for Latin poetry, in terms of length (11,995 verses evoking or narrating 250 metamorphoses in some 150 episodes), but also in terms of variety of genres, styles, and narrative devices. Covering the entire history of the world, from the original chaos to the time of Augustus when the poet wrote, a sort of universe-work whose labyrinthine structure makes a veritable and fascinating palace of mirages, "Golden Legend or "Vatican of paganism", "A Thousand and One Nights of Antiquity" they open with a story from Genesis and end, after a long and fascinating philosophical sermon given by Pythagoras (569-475 BC), on the promise of divinization of the reigning emperor and immortality of the poet, after having offered the reader, without ever boring him, a profusion of epic stories and burlesque tales, edifying, moving or gallant, whose inexhaustible jewels posterity has never ceased to recycle. Olivier Sers has translated Ovid, an unprecedented undertaking, line for line, into 11,995 classical Alexandrines, faithfully reproducing the phrasing and poetic style of the Latin hexameters. For the first time, the modern reader of the Metamorphoses is placed in the same situation as the ancient reader.
Classic bilingual collection. Ovid's Metamorphoses (43 BC-17 AD) are a kind of record book for Latin poetry, in terms of length (11,995 verses evoking or narrating 250 metamorphoses in some 150 episodes), but also in terms of variety of genres, styles, and narrative devices. Covering the entire history of the world, from the original chaos to the time of Augustus when the poet wrote, a sort of universe-work whose labyrinthine structure makes a veritable and fascinating palace of mirages, "Golden Legend or "Vatican of paganism", "A Thousand and One Nights of Antiquity" they open with a story from Genesis and end, after a long and fascinating philosophical sermon given by Pythagoras (569-475 BC), on the promise of divinization of the reigning emperor and immortality of the poet, after having offered the reader, without ever boring him, a profusion of epic stories and burlesque tales, edifying, moving or gallant, whose inexhaustible jewels posterity has never ceased to recycle. Olivier Sers has translated Ovid, an unprecedented undertaking, line for line, into 11,995 classical Alexandrines, faithfully reproducing the phrasing and poetic style of the Latin hexameters. For the first time, the modern reader of the Metamorphoses is placed in the same situation as the ancient reader.