Description

Rating: Not rated

Tags: Latin, Literature, Classics, Lang:en

Summary

This edition of the Metamorphoses is different to every other one you will come across, for one simple reason: it was designed specifically as an e-book. Without the need to print a physical copy and its accompanying size restrictions, we were able to do something that no one has done before, which was to split all 11,000 lines of the Metamorphoses into individual lines of Latin text, then provide running vocabulary for every word.

As you might imagine, this does not provide an ideal reading experience for one wishing to enjoy the pleasure's of Ovid's Latin, but it was not designed to do so. Instead, this book is aimed at students, teachers and indeed any Latin lovers who want to deep dive into this epic work and parse fully every word. So, if you're the kind of Latin reader who looks for nouns and verbs and tries to guess the rest, this work will allow you perhaps for the first time to see the meaning of every word of every line of the Metamorphoses.

The structure of this e-book is straightforward: Ovid split the work into 15 individual books, each with about 800 lines of poetry. To find a line you want, first choose the book, then choose the approximate line range – we've grouped them into tens so that you can find your way around without too much bother.

Each line is first given in Ovid's original Latin, then followed by running vocabulary: every word is shown as it appears in the text, then in its root form, then with its English translation.

**