| #13405 in Books | Ovid | 2004-08-03 | 2004-08-03 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.30 x5.00l,1.30 | File Name: 014044789X | 768 pages | Metamorphoses
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The most readable Latin classic|By L.Tonesi|Good, readable translation. Reads like a novel, which is what I was looking for. The stories are more violent than I expected - a lot of rape. And being changed into a tree or a stream is no joke either.
But since Shakespeare quotes Ovid's mythology in almost every play, it is useful to know what he is referring to, withou||A good translation in clear, dignified, poetic English -- Prof Elaine Fantham, Princeton I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive -- Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford|
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem 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...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) | Ovid.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
