Metamorphoses - Ovide

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Résumé :
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and divine characters reflect the never-ending flux and reflux of the universe itself.

Biographie:
A. D. Melville was a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a double First in Classics and won a Craven Studenship. His love of the Classics was kindled at Charterhouse and he discovered the seductive charms of Ovid at King's. After a long career as a solicitor in London, interrupted by distinguished service in the Second World War, he returned to Ovid, and his translations of the Metamorphoses, the Love Poems, and Sorrows of an Exile (Tristia) are all available in World's Classics. E. J. Kenney is a Fellow of Peterhouse and Emeritus Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include a critical edition of Ovid's amatory poems (Oxford Classical Texts, '961), an edition with commentary of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III(1971), The Classical Text. Aspects of editing in the age of the printed book (1974), The Ploughmans Lunch. Moretum: a poem ascribed to Virgil (1984). and he is Editor of and a contributor to The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. II, Latin Literature (1982).