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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451531450

ISBN-139780451531452

eBay Product ID (ePID)72373561

Product Key Features

Book TitleMetamorphoses

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAncient / Rome, Folklore & Mythology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2009

GenrePhilosophy, Poetry, Social Science, Literary Collections, History

AuthorOvid

FormatUk- a Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"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 "Mandelbaum's Ovid, like his Dante, is unlikely to be equalled for years to come." -- Bloomsbury Review "The Metamorphoses is conceived on the grandest possible scale . . . The number and variety of the metamorphoses are stunning: gods and goddesses, heroes and nymphs, mortal men and women are changed into wolves and bears, frogs and pigs, bulls and cows, deer and birds, trees and flowers, rocks and rivers, spiders and snakes, mountains and stars, while ships become sea nymphs, ants and stones and statues become people, men become women and vice versa . . . An elegantly entertaining and enthralling narrative." --from the Introduction by J. C. McKeown

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Afterword byGregory, Horace

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal871.2

SynopsisAn accessible translation of the classic poem A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. In this modern translation, Horace Gregory turns his own poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes of transformation, power, and love., A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes.

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