DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6

Alessandro Barchiesi editor Gianpiero Rosati editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Feb '24

Should be back in stock very soon

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6 cover

The first complete commentary in English on Ovid's Metamorphoses, covering textual interpretation, poetics, imagination, and ideology.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary in English on the poem and covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology.Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

ISBN: 9780521895798

Dimensions: 236mm x 163mm x 44mm

Weight: 1000g

786 pages