Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses
ISBN-10
0801870607
ISBN-13
9780801870606
Series
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Category
History
Pages
535
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Ovid

Description

This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)." Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed--often by love--into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spense, and the character of English Renaissance writing. --Johns Hopkins.

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