Aeneid by Virgil and Metamorphoses by Ovid with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated) - Softcover

Presenting the Aeneid by Virgil and Metamorphoses by Ovid with illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund. These classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.

The classic translation of the Aeneid by Virgil is by John Dryden, and of Metamorphoses by Ovid by John Dryden, Sir Samuel Garth, and others.

Two peerless works of ancient poetry, Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses remain leading representations or encapsulations of lyricism, romantic poetry, war poetry, and ancient mythology. An influence on every major poet since, these ancient myths and romantic stories represent the essence of ancient Rome and of the lyrical poetry that defined its literary classics.

Virgil, or Publius Vergilius Maro, was born near Mantua in the Roman Republic in 70 BC. He wrote three famed Latin poems: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Since its composition, the Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome; Virgil is said to have recited several books from it to the first Roman Emperor Augustus. He died at the age of 50 in 19 BC.

Ovid, or Publius Ovidius Naso, was born in Sulmo, Italy, in 43 BC. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, as well as Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Fasti. With his older contemporaries Virgil and Horace, he is often considered one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Later in life, he was exiled—according to his own words, because of "a poem and a mistake"—by Emperor Augustus to a remote province known as Tomis on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death in AD 17 or 18.