Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoseon - 1649

Ovid.
Publius Ovidius Naso’s Metamorphoses in 15 books:
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Texte en latin.
Amstelodami: Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1649. Complete edition of the 15 books of the Metamorphoses.
Dimensions: 12.7 x 8.9 cm.
Pages: 453 pages + Index rerum.
Leather binding very worn (contract photos)
Corner wear, small traces of worm holes outside the text.
Ancient annotations on the first pages
Interior fresh and complete, a few foxings.
Rare 17th-century edition by Thomae Farnabius of the Metamorphoses (in Latin: Metamorphōseōn librī: “Books of Transformations”)
A narrative Latin poem by the Roman poet Ovid, regarded as his masterpiece. Composed of fifteen books and more than 250 myths, the poem relates the history of the world, from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar, in a flexible mytho-historical frame.
The author: Publius Ovidius Naso (March 20, 43 BCE – 17/18 CE), better known as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived under the reign of Augustus. Contemporary of Virgil and Horace, he is often considered with them as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
The learned imperial Quintilian regarded him as the last of the Latin poets of the love elegy.
He enjoyed immense popularity, but, a literary-historical mystery, he was exiled by Augustus to a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to “carmen et error,” “a poem and a mistake,” but his discretion regarding the causes of the exile has sparked numerous speculations among scholars.