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The Essential Metamorphoses

Ovid author Stanley Lombardo editor W R Johnson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Published:15th Sep '11

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The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid’s self-styled history from the world's first origins down to my own time, this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus--and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.

ISBN: 9781603846257

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 341g

216 pages