Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Ovid; Melville, A. D.

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9780199537372: Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)
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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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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.

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