Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Ovid; Melville, A. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537372 ISBN 13: 9780199537372

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

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About this title

About the Author:

Publius Ovidius Naso, a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest
master of the elegiac couplet.

Review:

`This translation will quickly establish itself as _the_ transation for English speaking readers and students of this great Augustan epic.' Dr A.H.F. Griffin, University of Exeter

'a work of the highest quality which provides pleasure and information in generous measure.' JACT Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199537372
• ISBN 13: 9780199537372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528