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Metamorphoses: A New Translation

By Martin , Charles;Ovid

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN
9780393072433, 0393072436
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
734 kB (751760 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
xxvi, 597 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Hailed in Newsweek for his translation of The Poems of Catullus - "Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"--Martin's translation of the Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English."--Jacket.;The shaping of changes -- Of mortal children and immortal lusts -- The wrath of Juno -- Spinning yarns and weaving tales -- Contests of arms and song -- Of praise and punishment -- Of the ties that bind -- Impious acts and exemplary lives -- Desire, deceit, and difficult deliveries -- The songs of Orpheus -- Rome begins at Troy -- Around and about the Iliad -- Spoils of war and pangs of love -- Around and about the Aeneas -- Prophetic acts and visionary dreams.

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