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Amores by Ovid; Tom Bishop (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Fyfield Bks.
Ovid (c. 43 BC-AD17), a daring, original and passionate poet, has been an enduring influence on later poets.Amoresis the work that first made Ovid famous, and infamous. A scandal in its day, and probably in part responsible for Ovid's banishment from Rome,Amoreslays bare the intrigues and appetites of h ...Show more
Elegies Of Love by Ovid Rodin Illus
Category: Gift
- Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe, illustrated by Rodin's astonishingly free and improvisatory woodcuts, made in his later years Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his ...Show more
Heroides by Ovid
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope w ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Mary M. Innes (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 hi ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Gift | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth.Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses was the first major English version and brought Ovid to ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
Category: Classics
The brilliant historical epic âeoeMetamorphosesâe is Ovidâe(tm)s magnum opus. He has brilliantly presented a vast canvas which offers a multitude of legendary and mythical figures; these are linked together by a single thread âe" the theme of transition and unpredictability of nature. It chronicles the ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Metamorphoses - The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid; Rolfe Humphries (Translator); Joseph D. Reed (Notes by)
Category: Classics
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before--sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious--from the fall of Troy to bi ...Show more
Metamorphoses, the Norton Library by Charles Martin (Translator); Emily Wilson (Introduction by); Ovid
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Norton Library
Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a??smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear? (Richard Wilbur) version that ?highlights [the poem's] lightness and pervasive sense ...Show more
Ovid - Metamorphoses Vol II by Frank Justus Miller; Ovid; G. P. Goold
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this wor ...Show more