Ovid

"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war,...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne The Amores (16 BC) is a book of love elegies by Ovid. Divided into three books, The...

Clásico multicitado y a menudo mal comprendido, El aret de amar ha sido leído como la obrar irónica que sinn duda su autor visualizó, pero también ha sido objeto del horror y la censura ante el supuesto poderde corrupción de su mensaje, en fechas tan recientes como la primera mitad del siglo XX. En abierta sátira de la tradicón de poesía didáctica de su época. Ovidio escribe un breve tratado que no apunta hacia el mejor comportamiento moral...

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and endangered situation of China's national animal treasure.

"One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid - banished to...

Presents activities to explore and emphasize ecology and to demonstrate practical ways of conserving the environment.

Provides instructions for a variety of simple experiments demonstrating the principles and properties of electricity and magnetism.