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Metamorphoses Hardback - 2003
by Ovid; Charles Martin (Translator); Introduction by Bernard Knox
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Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars. First published in 1567, this landmark translation by Arthur Golding was the first major English edition of the epic, which includes such tales as the legend of Narcissus; the parable of Icarus; and the passion held by the witch-queen Circe for the great Aeneas. A compelling adaptation that used imagery familiar to English sixteenth-century society, it powerfully influenced Spenser, Shakespeare and the character of Elizabethan literature.
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Publius Ovidius Naso (the last name, "Nose," was a family inheritance from an ancestor who presumably had a big one), though admired by Shakespeare, was distrusted in the nineteenth century as an immoralist and dismissed for most of the twentieth as a lightweight, but is now back in favor.
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- Title Metamorphoses
- Author Ovid; Charles Martin (Translator); Introduction by Bernard Knox
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 597
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2003-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780393058109 / 0393058107
- Weight 2.33 lbs (1.06 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.32 x 1.83 in (23.72 x 16.05 x 4.65 cm)
- Reading level 1180
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Category Poetry
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Classical, Fables, Latin
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003014491
- Dewey Decimal Code 873.01
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