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Availability:In StockContributor:Llewelyn MorganSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2020-12-01Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198837688ISBN-10:198837682UPC:9780198837688Book Category:Literary Collections, History, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.70 x 4.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCZKKR5MM2
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction
"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he...
Series: Very Short Introductions
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198837688ISBN-10:198837682UPC:9780198837688Book Category:Literary Collections, History, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.70 x 4.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCZKKR5MM2
Llewelyn Morgan is a scholar of Roman literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of Roman poetry, primarily focusing on the works of Virgil, Horace and Ovid. His books focus on Virgil's Georgics and on poetic metre. Morgan has been teaching at the University of Oxford for twenty years.
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