The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156001267)

Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature -- classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid -- is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story to display a dazzling array of miraculous changes, from the time chaos is transformed into order at the moment of creation, to the time when the soul of Julius Caeser is turned into a star and set in the heavens. In its earthiness, its psychological acuity, this classic work continues to speak over the centuries to our time. "Reading Mandelbaum's extraordinary translation, one imagines Ovid in his darkest moods with the heart of Baudelaire...Brilliant."--Booklist

Author: Ovid
ISBN-10: 0156001268
ISBN-13: 9780156001267
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1995
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/13/1995