The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry)
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Summary
Written between AD 2 and 8, Ovid's poem, the Metamorphoses, gave a great number of Greek and Roman myths the form in which they are known today. Slavitt, translator of Ovid's Poetry of Exile, offers a new English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Summary
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Reviews
The best version of Ovid's Metamorphoses available in English today... It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone. Philadelphia Inquirer No one can deny the merits of Slavitt's version. His English hexameter is a great success-a supple, fluid, and versatile medium that does Ovid's loosening of the Virgilian line full justice. And at his best he is very good indeed. -- Bernard Knox New York Review of Books 1998
About Ovid
David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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