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Metamorphoses /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D (Author)
Other Authors: Humphries, Rolfe (Translator), Reed, J. D. (Annotator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Edition:The new, annotated edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god. In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 520 pages)
ISBN:9780253033703
0253033705
9780253034496
0253034493