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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733, Latin text with introduction, commentary, glossary of terms, vocabulary aid and study questions, [edited by] Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos

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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733, Latin text with introduction, commentary, glossary of terms, vocabulary aid and study questions, [edited by] Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733

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dictionaries

Responsibility statement

[edited by] Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos

Series statement

Classics textbooks series,, fifth volume, 2054-2437

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Latin text with introduction, commentary, glossary of terms, vocabulary aid and study questions

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

Target audience

adult

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Metamorphoses, 3.511-733

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