The Metamorphoses
$37.79
- Hardcover
568 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2013
Summary
Hardback gift edition of Ovid’s masterpiece. The Metamorphoses still has the power to provoke and amuse, as readers will find from this masterly new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum.
One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid’s sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet’s own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593586 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593583 |
| Author: | Ovid, Allen Mandelbaum, J.C. McKeown |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 568 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 607g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 132mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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“He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him” Vladimir Nabokov
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known to the English world as Ovid, was born in 43 BC in Abruzzo, Italy. He studied oratory in Rome and travelled to Greece. Intended for a public career, he instead devoted himself to poetry. Amongst his other works are the Amores (loves), Heroides (heroines), and the Ars Amatoria (art of love). For reasons which remain unclear, he was banished to the Black Sea by Emperor Augustus in AD 8. Grief-stricken, he composed there his Tristia (elegies). He was never allowed to return to Rome and died in exile in AD 17.
Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti have all been published to great critical acclaim. For the Aeneid, he won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
Formerly a Research Fellow and Senior Tutor at the University of Cambridge, J.C. McKeown is now Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His publications include a commentary on Ovid’s Amores and A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities. He was working on The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature which was published in summer 2013.
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