Metamorphoses
Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. The text is accompanied by a preface, A Note on the Translation, and detailed explanatory annotations.Sources and Backgrounds includes Seneca's inspired commentary on Ovid, Charles Martin's essay on the ways in which pantomimic dancing-an art form popular in Ovid's time-may have been the model for Metamorphoses, as well as related works by Virgil, Callimachus, Hesiod, a…
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Weitere Autoren: Martin, Charles (City University of New York) (Hrsg.) / Martin, Charles (City University of New York) (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-92534-0
- EAN: 9780393925340
- Produktnummer: 3439857
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.0 cm x D3.0 cm 568 g
- Auflage: Critical ed
- Gewicht: 568
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Charles Martin is a poet, critic, and translator. His translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2004. In 2005, he received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Signs & Wonders and Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems.
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