Metamorphoses (Hackett Classics)
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Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poemโs effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear noddin
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Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Release date: 24 September 2010
ISBN-10 : 1603843078 | ISBN-13: 9781603843072
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Release date: 24 September 2010
ISBN-10 : 1603843078 | ISBN-13: 9781603843072