Metamorphoses
$29.26
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2000
Summary
Mary Innes’s classic translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order—animals turn to stone; men and women become trees and stars. Ovid himself transformed the art of storytelling, infusing these stories with new …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140440585 |
| Author: | Ovid, Mary M. Innes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare’s) – Ezra Pound
About The Author
Ovid
Ovid was born in 43 BC in central Italy. He was sent to Rome where he realised that his talent lay with poetry rather than with politics. His first published work was ‘Amores’, a collection of short love poems. He was expelled in A.D. 8 by Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason and went to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he died in AD 17.
Mary M. Innes graduated from Glasgow and Oxford Universities and subsequently taught in the universities of Belfast and Aberdeen, before spending some twenty years proving to schoolgirls that classical languages can and should be enjoyed.
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