The Eighth Book Of The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Expurgated Ed PDF Download

Excerpt from The Eighth Book of the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Expurgated Edition): With Introduction and Notes The fifteen books of the Metamorphoses are Ovid's greatest work, both in bulk and in intrinsic interest. They contain, perhaps, the most complete system of Classical Mythology we possess, covering the period from Chaos, when the earth was without form and void (rudis indigestaque moles, i. 7), to the transformation of Julius Caesar into a star. The numerous tales which the work contains are ingeniously linked together so as to form a connected chronological series. The connecting link, however, is often very slight, and some of the episodes can hardly be properly said to describe a transformation, as, for example, the tale of Icarus who was buried in, not transformed into, the island that bore his name. We learn through Antoninus Liberalis (who lived about 150 A.D., and wrote in Greek a work on Metamorphoses, which is still extant) that, in part at least, Ovid followed Nicander in his method of connecting together the several legends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.