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Book Title
Metamorphoses Of Ovid, The
Publication Name
Metamorphoses Of Ovid, The
Title
Metamorphoses Of Ovid, The
Author
Ovid
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0156001268
EAN
9780156001267
ISBN
9780156001267
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Literary Criticism, Référence
Topic
General, Ancient & Classical
Release Date
15/04/1995
Release Year
1995
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.6in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Publication Year
1995
Type
Not Available
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature -- classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid -- is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story to display a dazzling array of miraculous changes, from the time chaos is transformed into order at the moment of creation, to the time when the soul of Julius Caeser is turned into a star and set in the heavens. In its earthiness, its psychological acuity, this classic work continues to speak over the centuries to our time. "Reading Mandelbaum's extraordinary translation, one imagines Ovid in his darkest moods with the heart of Baudelaire...Brilliant."--Booklist

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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156001268
ISBN-13
9780156001267
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Ovid
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1995
Type
Not Available
Genre
Literary Criticism, Référence
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz

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Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation.
Publication Name
Metamorphoses of Ovid
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
93-008118
Dewey Decimal
871/.01
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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  • Elegantly Enlightening

    Though I am not at all qualified to discuss the translation by Mandelbaum, I can expound upon Ovid's beautiful epic. Ovid intentionally uses key concepts to fool readers into believing they are reading an epic. It is an epic, but not like any other. The Metamorphoses begins with an invocation of the Muses and exists in dactyllic hexameter, both qualities of the epic genre. However, little else is epic. It actually follows the Greek style of epyllions, which were miniature epics. This is important because Ovid's "epic" follows Virgil's Aeneid, a true epic that Augustus wanted to be a Roman nationalist work, the epic of the Roman Empire. And while Virgil doesn't agree with all that he's writing, Ovid doesn't even care. Ovid writes whatever he wants, and instead of the exasperated sighs of ...

  • pencil markings

    Had to erase quite a bit of pencil underlining in the first chapters (Book I, Book II). If this is a problem for you, buy new. Is it a good value, it's a judgment call.

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  • very difficult to understand for a 14 yr old

    I bought this book for my son. It is required reading for high school. He didn't understand it. I don't know why a high school would require this kind of reading for a 14 yr old.