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Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
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Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new
clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound
in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array
of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of
transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and
women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes
extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and
ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of
the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome,
including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion,
Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but
light-hearted, dramatic yet playful, theMetamorphoses has
influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from
Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. Ovid (43BC-18AD)
was born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. Coming from a wealthy
Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he
held minor official posts before leaving public service to write,
becoming the most distinguished poet of his time. His works, all
published in Penguin Classics, include Amores, a collection of
short love poems; Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological
heroines to their lovers; Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on
love; and Metamorphoses, his epic work that has inspired countless
writers and artists through the ages. David Raeburn is a lecturer
in Classics at Oxford, and has also translated Sophocles' Electra
and Other Plays for Penguin Classics. Denis Feeney is Professor of
Classics at Princeton.
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