Ovid
Author of Metamorphoses [in translation]
About the Author
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome show more but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Ovid
Amores + Ars amatoria + Medicamina faciei femineae + Remedia amoris [in translation] (1990) — Author — 1,107 copies
Art of love + Cosmetics + Remedies for love + Ibis + Walnut-tree + Sea Fishing + Consolation [bilingual Latin English] (1929) — Author — 234 copies
Ovid : Amores + Metamorphoses : Selections : Latin text, Introduction, Vocabulary, Notes [2nd edition] (2000) — Author — 82 copies
L'Art d'aimer -Les Remèdes de l'amour - Les Produits de beauté pour le visage de la femme (1963) 57 copies
P. Ovidi Nasonis: Tristium Libri Quinque; Ibis; Ex Ponto Libri Quattuor; Halieutica; Fragmenta (Oxford Classical Texts)… (1922) — Author — 48 copies
Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses: Baucis and Philemon/Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus/Narcissus and Echo/Pentheus… (1971) 45 copies
The Student's Ovid: Selections from the Metamorphoses (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (2000) 35 copies
Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (English) 24 copies
Ovid : Metamorphoses III : Edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary (1979) — Writer — 21 copies
The Epistles of Ovid (English) 19 copies
Ovid in six volumes 18 copies
Libellus: Selections from Horace, Martial, Ovid and Catullus (Cambridge Latin Texts) (1978) 14 copies
The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2 (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) (2014) 10 copies
Ovid Metamorphoses XIII-XV and Indexes to Metamorphoses I-XV (Classical Texts) (Bks. 13-15) (2000) — Author — 9 copies
Ovid in six volumes 7 copies
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV / interpretatione & notis illustravit Daniel Chrispinus Helvetius ad usum… (2010) 6 copies
The Halieutica ascribed to Ovid 6 copies
Ovid 5 copies
P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistulae heroidum (Serie dei classici greci e latini. Testi con commento filologico) (Latin Edition) (1971) 5 copies
Ovid's Metamorphoses.Books 1-5 4 copies
P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses 4 copies
Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses — Author — 4 copies
Ovid in Sicily: A New Verse Translation of Selections from the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid, with Foreword, Latin Facing… (1986) 4 copies
Virgil's Aeneid The First Six Books and the Completion of the Story and Ovid's Metamorphoses (1923) 4 copies
Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum epistolæ unà cum A. Sabini epistolis tribus, ad totidem Ovidianas… 4 copies
Amores + Ars amatoria + Epistulae + Medicamina faciei femineae + Metamorphoses + Remedia amoris + Tristia + Ibis + Ex… (1891) — Author — 4 copies
Amores & Arte de amar 3 copies
Ovid : Metamorphoses VIII : Edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary (2008) — Writer — 3 copies
The Fall of Icarus 3 copies
Pénélope à Ulysse et autres lettres d'amour de grandes héroïnes antiques (Folio 2 €) (2021) 3 copies
Morceaux Choisis des Métamorphoses 3 copies
Uitgelezen teksten 3 copies
Písně lásky a žalu 3 copies
The Metamorphoses Books VIIIXV 3 copies
Ovid's epistles 3 copies
Alpha Classics: Ovid On Himself 3 copies
The metamorphoses of Ovid 3 copies
Umění milovati 3 copies
Decerpta ex P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libris : notis Anglicis illustrata, in usum scholarum (2016) 3 copies
Las metamorfosis 2 copies
Arte de amar y Las metamorfosis 2 copies
Ovid's Metamorphoses: an anthology 2 copies
Amores ; Arte de amar ; Sobre la cosmética del rostro femenino ; Remedios contra el amor (2016) 2 copies
Myths froms Ovid's Metamorphoses 2 copies
Metamorphosen: Addenda Und Corrigenda (Wissenschaftliche Kommentare Zu Griechischen Und Lateinischen Schriftstellern)… (1969) 2 copies
Selections from the poems of Ovid 2 copies
Carmina Latīna 2 copies
Heroides 2 copies
Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses 2 copies
Les metamorfosis. II 2 copies
Žalozpěvy 2 copies
Ibis + Ex Ponto + Tristia — Author — 2 copies
Przemiany 2 copies
Sztuka rybołówstwa 2 copies
L'arte d'amare. Testo latino a fronte. Illustrata da Aristide Maillol con un saggio di Scevola Mariotti (1979) 2 copies
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Selections Required For Entrance To College In The Years 1926-1928 2 copies
El arte de amar 2 copies
L'Amore 2 copies
Le metamorfosi 2 copies
Heroides : Volgarizzamento fiorentino trecentesco. 3: Le varianti di una tradizione innovativa e le chiose aggiunte (2009) — Author — 2 copies
Contre Ibis 2 copies
Works: v. 2 (Oxford Classical Texts) 2 copies
Heroides : Volgarizzamento fiorentino trecentesco. 2: I testimoni oltre l'autografo ordinamento stemmatico e storia… (2009) — Author — 2 copies
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri sex = The 'Fasti' of Ovid Vol. 1 Text and translation (1929) 2 copies
Selections From Ovid: With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary by James N. Anderson (1899 ) (2009) 2 copies
Le metamorfosi, volume secondo 2 copies
Heroides : Volgarizzamento fiorentino trecentesco. 1: Introduzione, testo secondo l'autografo e glossario (2009) — Author — 2 copies
Metamorphoses 2 copies
Gedichte aus der Verbannung : Eine Auswahl aus Tristia und Episulae ex ponto [bilingual Latin German] (2013) 2 copies
Metamorfosi vol. II 2 copies
Les metamorfosis 2 copies
Hulpboekje 2 copies
Orpheus et Eurydice 2 copies
Przemiany 1 copy
Metanorfosi, Libri III - IV 1 copy
The Ovid Collection 1 copy
Jak léčiti lásku 1 copy
The Amores 1 copy
Versi e precetti d'amore 1 copy
Heilmittel gegen die Liebe 1 copy
L' arte d' amare 1 copy
Tristien. Nachdichtung aus dem Lateinischen sowie Nachwort und Anmerkungen von Volker Ebersbach (1984) 1 copy
変身物語 下 1 copy
変身物語 上 1 copy
L'Art d'Aimer 1 copy
Verše z vyhnanství 1 copy
P. Ovidius Naso szerelmei 1 copy
Metamorfosi 1 copy
Ordagrann översättning över valda stycken ur Ovidii Metamorfoser : till vägledning för nybegynnare 1 copy
L'arte dell'amore 1 copy
The Remedy of Love 1 copy
The Art of Love 1 copy
Metamorphoses [1] Books 1-8 1 copy
Promy 1 copy
Ibis 1 copy
KONSTEN ATT ÄLSKA 1 copy
Tre klagesange 1 copy
Skorbnye Elegii. Pisma s Ponta / Tristia . Epistulae ex Ponto (Russian Edition) / Скорбные элегии.… (1982) 1 copy
Amores 1 copy
Héroïdes 1 copy
P. Ovidi Nasoni Amores 1 copy
Lettere d'amore 1 copy
Traduction des Fastes d'Ovide, Vol. 2: Avec des Notes Et des Recherches de Critique, d'Histoire Et de Philosophie, Tant… (2017) 1 copy
Metamorfosen fragmenten 1 copy
Kalendergedichten 1 copy
Forvandlingene : et utvalg 1 copy
The Amores; or, Amours 1 copy
Rakastamisen taito 1 copy
Cartas de las heroínas 1 copy
Elegie scelte 1 copy
Pòntiques, vol. II i últim 1 copy
Pòntiques, vol. I 1 copy
LES METAMORFOSIS - VOLUM II 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (Volum I) 1 copy
Les metamorfosis VII-XV 1 copy
Ovide. Les Métamorphoses : EMetamorphoseone. Traduction, introduction et notes par Joseph Chamonard (1966) 1 copy
Ovide. Les Métamorphoses ["Metamorphoseon"]. Traduction, introduction et notes par Joseph Chamonard 1 copy
Textos mitologicos 1 copy
L'arte di far l'amore 1 copy
Scholia, A. La Penna 1 copy
Metamorfosi vol.III 1 copy
Metamorfosi vol. I 1 copy
La poesia delle forme 1 copy
Le metamorfosi. Volume 3 1 copy
Metamorfosi. Vol. I 1 copy
Tristes - Ponticas 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (II) 1 copy
Metamorfosi Vol. 2 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (I-III) 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (vol. III) 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (III) 1 copy
Les metamorfosis (I) 1 copy
Les Metamorfosis II 1 copy
Tristium 1 copy
Quelques beaux vers d'Ovide 1 copy
Le metamorfosi di Ovidio 1 copy
Ovidija Metamorfozas : teksts, paskaidrojumi un vārdnīca — Author — 1 copy
Ovidija Metamorfozas = P. Ovidii Nasonis "Metamorphoses" : trijās daļās — Author — 1 copy
Metamorfozės 1 copy
Helen of Troy 1 copy
Les metamorfosis Volum III 1 copy
Les metamorfosis Volum II 1 copy
Les metamorfosis Volum I 1 copy
Les metamorfosis III 1 copy
Nowele Rzymskie — Contributor — 1 copy
Poezje wybrane 1 copy
The Metamorphosis of Ovid, Vol. 1 of 7: Literally Translated With Notes and Explanations (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 copy
Ovid in Latin & English 1 copy
Ifasti 1 copy
Les Métamorphoses. Préfacées par Jacques Lacarrière, illlustrées de gravures originales de Dimanov. 1 copy
MÉTAMORPHOSES EXTRAITS 1 copy
Les métarmorphoses 1 copy
Las Heroidas 1 copy
Opere vol. I 1 copy
Opere. Vol. II 1 copy
Metamorfosis XI-XV 1 copy
Choix des Métamorphoses d'Ovide, et fragments des Fastes, des Tristes, des Pontiques, etc. (1875) 1 copy
Ovidio, antología (Incluye La metamorfosis, Amores, El Arte de Amar, Las tristezas y Las Pónticas) (Spanish Edition) (2013) 1 copy
Metamorphoses. -- 2 vols. 1 copy
Pygmalion 1 copy
Ovid's selected works 1 copy
Metamorphoses, vol. 1 1 copy
Selections from Ovid, Latin Text, with an Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary in English By Francis W. Kelsey -- Tenth… (1890) 1 copy
P. Ovidii Nasonis Carmina selecta; selections from Ovid with an introduction, notes, and vocabulary 1 copy
Ovids Verwandlungen 1 copy
Metamorp 1 copy
The Metaporphoses of Ovid 1 copy
A Bitter Harvest 1 copy
Ovid Nux 1 copy
Forvandlinger 1 copy
Selections form Ovid 1 copy
The Masque of Comus 1 copy
The Collected Works of Ovid: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) 1 copy
THE ART OF LOVE by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid). Translated by James Michie. Paintings by Grahame Baker. FOLIO SOCIETY… (1993) 1 copy
The Perseus Myth 1 copy
Ovid: Everyman Poetry 1 copy
Wandlungen 1 copy
Metamorphoseon liber 1 1 copy
Publii Ovidii Nasonis De tristibus libri V. Interpretatione & notis illustravit Daniel Crispinus Helvetius, ... In usum… (2010) 1 copy
Metamorphoses: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Ovid (2010-01-19) (1743) 1 copy
Metamorphoses Book VIII 1 copy
Fastorum, Books I and II 1 copy
Fastorum, Books V and VI 1 copy
Fastorum, Books III and IV 1 copy
Tristium Liber I 1 copy
Le Metamorfosi e I Fasti - — Author — 1 copy
The poems; selections 1 copy
der kaledonische Eber 1 copy
Metamorphoses Volume 1 1 copy
Ovidius usum Delphini 1 copy
Carmina 1 copy
As Metamorphóses De Publio Ovidio Nasão: Poema Em Quinze Livros, Volume 1 (Portuguese Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Ovide Contre Ibis 1 copy
Stories from Metamorphoses 1 copy
Metamorphoses (selections) 1 copy
Selections from the Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris of Ovid : with introd., notes, and vocabulary 1 copy
Heroides I-X 1 copy
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Volume I, in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical… (0008) 1 copy
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Volume II, in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical… (0008) 1 copy
[Auswahl aus] Ovid 1 copy
Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished, Mythologize'd, And Represented in Figures, An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's… (1632) 1 copy
Publii Ovidii Nasonis operum 1 copy
An elegy 1 copy
Przemiany / Owidiusz 1 copy
Poesie d'amore e dell'esilio 1 copy
Alle de werken 1 copy
Les Epistres d'Ovide traduittes en vers françois. Avec des commentaires par C.G. Bachet. 1e partie 1 copy
Przemiany 1 copy
Les Metamorfosis llibres, V 1 copy
Les metamorfosis, vol. 2 1 copy
Les metamorfosis, vol. 3 1 copy
El arte de amar los amores 1 copy
Die Fasten v.1-2 1 copy
Tristes, vol. 2 1 copy
Love Books of Ovid, Limited Edition of Fifty Numbered Copies, with an Original Drawing by Alexander King (1930) 1 copy
P. Ouidij Nasonis poetæ Svlmonensis Poemata amatoria ... Argumenta item, & marginales annotationes… 1 copy
[Epistole d'Ovidio] 1 copy
[Ovidii Epistolae] 1 copy
Les metamorfosis, vol. 1 1 copy
Tristes, vol. 1 1 copy
Ovid: Metamorphoses, I., II. 1-400. Edited with a translation by A. H. Allcroft ... and J. F. Stout — Writer — 1 copy
**REPRINT** P. OvidII Nasonis Fastorum Liber Primus : with English Notes and a Vocabulary (1883) 1 copy
OVIDS ART OF LOVE. 1 copy
Ovid : Metamorphoses : Book I — Writer — 1 copy
Ovid: Metamorphoses, Book I. lines 1-150. Edited by A. H. Allcroft ... and B. J. Hayes — Writer — 1 copy
SPQR Study Guides : Publius Ovidius Naso : Amores : Latin + English + vocabulary (2013) — Writer — 1 copy
Von der Kunst zu lieben 1 copy
[Midi-Set AMOR - ROMA: Liebe und Erotik im alten Rom, Tusculum] (Sammlung Tusculum) (German Edition) (2023) 1 copy
Ovid’s Fasti: English Text 1 copy
Ovid's art of love 1 copy
[Maxi-Set AMOR - ROMA: Liebe und Erotik im alten Rom] (Sammlung Tusculum) (German Edition) (2023) 1 copy
Los Tristes 1 copy
Ovid’s Fasti: Latin Text 1 copy
Amors 1 copy
Opera - ed. 1722 - Antuerpia 1 copy
Metamorfoses - I 1 copy
Arte de amar 1 copy
Tristezas 1 copy
Tristes 1 copy
Les Metamorfosis . volum II 1 copy
Art amatòria 1 copy
Amors 1 copy
Metamorfoses - trad. Bocage 1 copy
Lásky 1 copy
Proměny 1 copy
Metamorphoses 8 1 copy
Dönüşümler 1 copy
Aşk Sanatı 1 copy
The Complete Ovid Anthology 1 copy
The Complete Works of Publius Ovidius Naso (Annotated): Annotated with an extensive biography, THE METAMORPHOSES OF… (2018) 1 copy
Scrisori din exil 1 copy
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Phew, mostly rape, murder, and incest. In ten-beat, unrhymed lines.
Then at the end he throws in Mr. Vegetarian, Pythagoras, and the deification of Julius Caesar. The metamorphoses in these are a bit of a stretch. Pythagoras saying that all things change into other things, and a man becoming a god to justify the deification of his son. Augustus is such a swell guy, his dad must be a god! Make it so, Mr. Crusher.
The remarkable things, one of which I noticed as a 14 year old, was the trans story. And it turns out there are two. Both trans-men, of course. And the dual-gender of Hermaphroditus. Neither of these very trans- or bi-friendly, but notable all the same.
The Story of Salmacis (dual gender, but the fountain waters thenceforth to weaken males)
The Story of Iphis and Ianthe (daughter passed off as a son set to marry another woman transformed on their wedding day)
The Story of Caeneus (woman tired of rape asking her rapist to no longer be a woman so to never suffer that again - rapist, as usual, was a god who could arrange this - and the trans-man then becomes a great warrior)
People turning into plants, animals, and stone eventually gets tiresome. But it's in the title.… (more)