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Heroides by Ovid
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope w ...Show more
How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On by Ovid
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Category: Psychology | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love--a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of loveBreakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Poetry | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth.Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Ovid - Metamorphoses Vol II by Frank Justus Miller; Ovid; G. P. Goold
$47.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), 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 wor ...Show more
Ovid's Erotic Poems"Amores" and "Ars Amatoria" by Ovid
$64.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Translated by award-winning poet Len Krisak, Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a fresh modern take on the renowned Roman's sophisticated satirical verse on love, sex, marriage, and adultery.
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
The Art of Love by Ovid
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Category: Poetry
This title is translated by TOM PAYNE. "The Art of Love" may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history, and his advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need to kn ...Show more
The Golden Age – Ovid's Metamorphoses by Ovid
$42.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Classics
Seventeen of Ovid's enduring stories stunningly illustrated.Known the world over, Ovid's canonical work has spanned centuries, never losing its relevance. Retold by award-winning Austrian author Heinz Janisch with transcendent illustrations by Ana Sender, this collection includes some of Ovid's most pop ...Show more
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