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Metamorphoses
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  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781841593586
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 568
  • RRP: $45.00

Metamorphoses

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3 Nov 2009
Paperback
28 Mar 2002
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3 Nov 2009
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27 Apr 2006
Paperback
29 Dec 2000
Hardback
15 Nov 2013
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Hardback gift edition of Ovid's masterpiece. The Metamorphoses still has the power to provoke and amuse, as readers will find from this masterly new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum.

One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love. Frequently translated, imitated and paraphrased.
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781841593586
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 568
  • RRP: $45.00
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Ovid

Ovid—Publius Ovidius Naso—(43 bce–ce 17 or 18) was born into a wealthy Roman family and became the most distinguished poet of his time. He died in exile on the Black Sea, far from Rome and his literary life.
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