Ovid: The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. (Tristia, l, ix, 5)

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Ovid Text

Ovid, 43 B.C. - 17 or 18 A.D.
Les Metamorphases. Paris: Bibliotheque des Arts, 1974.
Call Number: (RARE) PA 6523 .M2 L3x 1974
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

This is a facsimile reproduction of a 1931 edition of Picasso's edition of The Metamorphases. This was his first effort at book illustration. It was followed by illustrations to a Balzac and Aristophanes Lysistrata (also included in this exhibit).

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Ovid Image

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