Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9-15 [Latin]

by Ovid

The poetry of change.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674990471
• ISBN13: 9780674990470
• Release Date: January 1916
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.7"