Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

by Llewelyn Morgan

Book Overview

"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 can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198837682
• ISBN13: 9780198837688
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"