| Metamorphoses Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ovid (Author), Raeburn, David (Translator), Feeney, Denis (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 014044789X ISBN-13: 9780140447897 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, "The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals of classical mythology: Venus and Adonis, Pygmalion, Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus, Perseus and Andromeda, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Cyclops, and Circe, among others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Poetry | Epic |
| Dewey: 873.01 |
| Lexile Measure: 1180 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (1.15 lbs) 768 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ovid's sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |