Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid (8 AD) is an epic poem by Ovid. Published the same year, the poet was, sent into exile for the rest of his life, the Metamorphoses are the crowning achievement of the first major poet of the Roman empire. Written in dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and of Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's work is an epic poem of transformations, of shape-shifting matter and beings bound to the power of love. Taking as its...

For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals...

"The Fasti", a work structured on the Roman calendar, is believed to have been left incomplete when Ovid was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 A.D. It is a series of elegiac couplets which present the first-hand accounts of vates, or "poet-prophets" with Roman deities regarding the origin of various Roman holidays and associated customs. The first six months of the year are all that is included in the work and it is unclear whether this...

Ovids Lehrgedicht über die Kunst der Verführung gehört bis heute zu den berühmtesten und meistgelesenen Werken der antiken Literatur. Die ersten beiden Bücher enthalten Anweisungen für das Verhalten der Männer, das dritte solche für Frauen. Die "Ars amatoria" spiegelt das gesellschaftliche Leben der Kaiserzeit, in der die Liebe häufig als Spiel aufgefasst wurde. Kaiser Augustus hat das Werk aus den öffentlichen Bibliotheken verbannt.

A la fois drle et sérieux, découvrez l'un des plus vieux textes érotiques existants L'Art d'Aimer est une œuvre en vers écrite à Rome vers l'an 1 de notre ère. Elle demeure un des textes érotiques parmi les plus célèbres au monde. Le poète Ovide s'adresse à nous comme à des élèves, garçons et filles, auxquels il va enseigner l'art d'aimer et de séduire, d'abord aux hommes dans les deux premiers livres, puis aux femmes dans le dernier....

"The Love Books of Ovid" is a collection of four works of Roman poet Ovid's verses on love in English prose translation. Ovid, born in 43 B.C., a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, lived during the reign of Augustus and is perhaps best remembered today for his work on Roman mythology entitled "The Metamorphoses". This volume collects the poet's following works: "The Loves", "The Art of Love", "Love's Cure", and "The Art of Beauty". Ovid was an innovator...

CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia-a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything-everyone-he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy...

Lieutenant Sam Johnson sat listening intently as the police psychologist spoke. "I'm afraid we're dealing with another sex crime. There's no question about it-think of how the bodies were mutilated. Also this killer will strike without reason or motive, and he will strike again and again until his morbid sexual desires are satisfied. "Lieutenant Johnson, the most experienced detective on the force, leaned forward. "And I'll tell you something, Doctor,"...

Marcel Issachar: a simple man caught in an accident of history during the early and mid-twentieth century: In the greatest upheaval the world ever experienced. An intellectual he is not: A Jewish pragmatist, snared into less than a pragmatic world. He came to loath the Jewish God... he believed, He did not exist. He despised His little Jew Son... because, he had brought hope to mankind... then failed them and, what's more, that old bearded Jewish...