Focuses 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.
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Focuses 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.
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In his "Metamorphoses", Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from even further afield to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. A chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order, animals turn to stone, men and women become trees, stones and stars. Ovid's gentle vein of humour which runs through his work is exploited with subtlety, sympathy and self-irony.
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“"Reading Mandelbaum's extraordinary translation, one imagines Ovid in his darkest moods with the heart of Baudelaire . . . Mandelbaum's translation is brilliant. It throws off the stiff and mild homogeneity of former translations and exposes the vivid colors of mockery, laughter, and poison woven so beautifully by the master." -- Booklist ”
The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's) -- Ezra Pound
About the Author
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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