Metamorphoses
Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literatureThe most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's). -Ezra Pound Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order: animals turn to stone; men and women become trees and stars. Ovid himself transformed the art of storytelling, infusing these stories with new life through his subtley, humour and understanding of human nature, and elega…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McCarter, Stephanie (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-525-50600-3
- EAN: 9780525506003
- Produktnummer: 38099439
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 544 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) was born in central Italy. He was sent to Rome where he realised that his talent lay with poetry rather than with politics. His first published work was 'Amores', a collection of short love poems. He was expelled in A.D. 8 by Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason and went to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he died. Stephanie McCarter is Professor of Classical Literature at the University of the South in Sewanee. She has published translated work on Horace and has written for Sewanee Review, Eidolon, Electric Literature and The Millions.
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