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Metamorphoses - a New Verse Translation (Paperback, Revised)
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Metamorphoses - a New Verse Translation (Paperback, Revised)
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'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure
pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard,
Guardian Ovid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of
the world and 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 extraordinary new beings. Including the
well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe,
Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the
Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare
and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David
Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the
energy and spontaneity of the original. Translated by DAVID RAEBURN
with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY
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