Ovide & J. Ch. Poncelin - Œuvres complètes d'Ovide - 1799

Rare seven-volume set of this edition that brings together all the major writings of the great Latin poet whose work traverses the themes of love, mythology, metamorphosis, exile, and the human condition -

The volumes include notably the Metamorphoses, an immense epic poem tracing the mythological history of the world from creation to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, where the gods, heroes and mortals are constantly transformed into animals, plants, stars or natural elements under the influence of passions, divine punishments or fate -

Through these famous narratives appear the stories of Daphne transformed into laurel to escape Apollo, Narcissus consumed by his love of himself, Phaëton hurled from the sky after wishing to drive the chariot of the Sun, or Orpheus attempting to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld -

The work also contains the Amores and The Art of Love, where Ovid analyzes with irony and elegance the games of seduction, the strategies of love and the behaviors of men and women in Roman society -

Ovid & J. Ch. Poncelin - Complete Works of Ovid - 1799 - Volume I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII - Derable -
CXXV, 290 + 436 + 392 + 504 + 500 + 496 + 447 pages -

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their brown half-leather edition, marbled boards, signs of wear, some minor defects on boards and spine, several headpieces missing, corners and hinges worn, smooth spine decorated, gilded titles, pagination and author’s name gilded –

Good interior condition, some stains, superb frontispiece engraving in the first volume, endpapers in good condition with handwritten annotations on one endpaper, a pleasing overall set –

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