The Essential Metamorphoses - Couverture souple

Ovid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603846247 ISBN 13 : 9781603846240

Editeur : Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid’s self-styled history from the world's first origins down to my own time, this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus--and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.

W. R. Johnson is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603846247
• ISBN 13: 9781603846240
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible