Metamorphoses
The New, Annotated Edition
Indiana University Press · Print & ebook · April 13, 2018
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie.
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- Who it’s for
- A lightly playful, annotated way into Ovid’s myths and their afterlives.
- Genres
- Ancient & Classical Poetry, Epic Poetry, Fairy Tales & Myths
- Published
- Indiana University Press, April 13, 2018
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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.
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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.
Myths, Annotated
A lightly playful, annotated way into Ovid’s myths and their afterlives.
Come here for
- annotated classics, not a museum piece
- mythic wit with room to study the margins
Expect
- close reading aids
- cultural touchstones, elegantly preserved
Where it sits
| Ancient & Classical Poetry | 54% |
|---|---|
| Fairy Tales & Myths | 36% |
| Epic Poetry | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
- Ancient & Classical Poetry
- Authors
- Ovid, Rolfe Humphries, Joseph D. Reed
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- April 13, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism