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Hackett Classics Ser.: Metamorphoses by Ovid (2010, Trade Paperback)
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781603843072
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1603843078
ISBN-13
9781603843072
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92405254
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metamorphoses
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Ancient / Rome, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Poetry, Social Science, Fiction, History
Book Series
Hackett Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2010-019307
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Lombardo's translation is the most readable I've seen. . . . Its language is modern, accessible, and unpretentious. . . . I can imagine reading all the way through this version with students. I also admire the catalog of transformations . . . and, as usual, an Introduction by Ralph Johnson is worth the price of the book.--Margaret Musgrove, University of Central Oklahoma, A superb teaching text. The translation is readable, witty, and very accessible to today's students. The glossary is useful, and Johnson's essay is a great introduction to Ovid.--John Makowski, Loyola University, Chicago, Stanley Lombardo successfully matches Ovid's human drama, imaginative brio, and irresistible momentum; and Ralph Johnson's superb Introduction to Ovid's 'narratological paradise' is a bonus to this new and vigorous translation that should not be missed. Together, Introduction and text bring out the delightful unpredictability of Ovid's 'history of the world' down to his times.--Elaine Fantham, Giger Professor of Latin, Emerita, Princeton University
Dewey Decimal
871.01
Synopsis
A compelling new verse translation of Ovid's masterpiece by the award-winning translator of Homer's Iliad (1997) and Odyssey (2000), Virgil's Aeneid (2005), and Dante's Inferno (2008), accompanied by a brilliant Introduction that sets the poem in its historical, intellectual, political, and literary contexts. Includes a glossary and an index of transformations., Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem's effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off. The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W. R. Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem's most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects. An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a glossary are also included.
LC Classification Number
PA6522.M2L66 2010
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