Metamorphoses
a new verse translation
$20.24
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2004
Summary
The Art of Transformation: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.
This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid’s narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447897 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014044789X |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Ovid, David Raeburn, Denis Feeney |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 528g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
A good translation in clear, dignified, poetic English – Prof Elaine Fantham, PrincetonI think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive – Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford
About The Author
Ovid
DAVID RAEBURN is a lecturer in Classics at Oxford. He has translated Sophocles & directed numerous school/ university productions of Greek tragedies.
DENIS FEENEY is Professor of Classics at Princeton.
RICHARD ASHDOWNE is in the Department of Comparative Philology, Linguistics and Phonetics, Oxford.
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