Description: ----PlaclivancDimensions : 18 cm by 11 cm. Volume 2.The Metamorphoses (in Latin Metamorphōseōn librī, “Books of Metamorphoses”) is a long Latin poem by Ovid, the composition of which probably begins in year 1. The work includes fifteen books (nearly twelve thousand verses) written in dactylic hexameters and brings together several hundred short stories on the theme of metamorphoses from Greek mythology and Roman mythology, organized according to a complex structure and often intertwined with each other. in the others. The general structure of the poem follows a chronological progression, from the creation of the world to the time in which the author lives, that is to say the reign of the Emperor Augustus.Famous since Antiquity, the poem became a classic of Latin literature translated throughout the world and enjoys abundant posterity until today. It has sparked numerous comments and analyzes and has inspired numerous artists from Antiquity to the present day. Ovid composed the Metamorphoses at the very beginning of the 1st century, during the reign of Emperor Augustus. This historical period is marked by the end of the civil wars which devastated the Romans, and by the advent of the Empire which is, notwithstanding the safeguarding of republican institutions and the desire to mark the return to a golden age, the expression in reality of personal power1. Nevertheless, Emperor Augustus worked hard to develop the arts, particularly literature, by protecting numerous poets such as Virgil and Horace who helped to propagate this idea of renewal1. This support for writers following Augustus's seizure of power stems from a search for unification of the subjects of the Empire behind a culture, a common heritage. The ideological issue then requires the creation of an imperial mythology, with an obvious political dimension.The Metamorphoses were written when Ovid was already a recognized poet (he had published several poetic collections, including Les Amours and The Art of Loving). The Metamorphoses were not completely finished when he was exiled to Tomis (present-day Constanța in Romania, on the shores of the Black Sea), perhaps because of his previous work The Art of Loving, where he allowed himself to criticize the regime in place and takes license to a point which could disturb the Augustan desire to restore a certain moral order. It is in this hellish exile that he ends his days on an imprecise date, probably around the year 9 or 10.Beyond the political context, the literary era is particularly fertile. This 1st century is marked by the creation of monuments of Latin literature, such as Virgil's Aeneid, which was inspired by Hellenic myths to compose a founding poem in Roman culture. This rewriting of Greek material is omnipresent in Ovid, who is similarly inspired by Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as well as Hesiod's Theogony1. Furthermore, the Metamorphoses are the only poem by Ovid composed in dactylic hexameters, verses usually reserved for the epic.Author's project2017-fr.wp-orange-source.svgThis section does not cite enough of its sources (April 2018). The author's project is complex and innovative. This poetic manifesto endorses the verse of the epic without having the same objectives. Ovid does not wish, like Virgil, to write a text to the glory of Augustus or the glory of Rome. The poet chooses to stage metamorphoses whose origins he draws from mythological stories, epic stories and tragedies1. The term metamorphosis is already in itself new because it was undoubtedly created by Ovid himself (the word appears for the first time in this work)2. Before him, we used the term transformation but not metamorphosis2. It therefore implies a mode of rewriting different from what has preceded it in time. This term of metamorphosis is therefore twofold: both a story of transformation and at the same time a literary genre through the transformation of the story in itself3. It is this last point which makes Ovid's work unique2. The poet has transformed the epic, the tragedy and the poetry into a unique and complex poetic story whose common point is rewriting. The project then clearly appears to create a catalog of metamorphoses not to explain the organization of the world as the previous texts from which it draws inspiration were able to do but to give a vision of the world2.Structure and summariesBook IMyth Verse SummaryPrimordial Chaos — Origin of the World 5-75 From chaos, from a process of separation and differentiation, initiated by “a god and nature in progress” (v. 21, trans. D. Robert), until the creation of man.Creation of man by Prometheus 76-88 The four ages of humanity 89-150 The evolution of humanity is described, from the most harmonious to the most brutal: the “golden age”, the “silver age” (after JupiterThe author's project is complex and innovative. This poetic manifesto endorses the verse of the epic without having the same objectives. Ovid does not wish, like Virgil, to write a text to the glory of Augustus or the glory of Rome. The poet chooses to stage metamorphoses whose origins he draws from mythological stories, epic stories and tragedies1. The term metamorphosis is already in itself new because it was undoubtedly created by Ovid himself (the word appears for the first time in this work)2. Before him, we used the term transformation but not metamorphosis2. It therefore implies a mode of rewriting different from what has preceded it in time. This term of metamorphosis is therefore twofold: both a story of transformation and at the same time a literary genre through the transformati
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