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  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140447897
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $23.00
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Metamorphoses

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




\"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive.\" - Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford

Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.

  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140447897
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $23.00
Categories:

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About the authors

Stephanie McCarter

Stephanie McCarter (translator) is a professor of classical literature at the University of the South in Sewanee. She has published translated work on Horace and has written for The Sewanee Review, Eidolon, Electric Literature, and The Millions.

Praise for Metamorphoses

A good translation in clear, dignified, poetic English

Prof Elaine Fantham, Princeton

I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive

Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford