Tales from Ovid
by Ovid
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the great works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry. Ted Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read of living poets, has now translated twenty-four stories from the Metamorphoses. The result, Tales from Ovid, is the most vigorous and supple twentieth-century version of this foundational work, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.
Writing in clear, emphatic unrhymed verse, Ted Hughes has transformed Ovid's Latin poetry into English, giving us not only a new Ovid but a substantial new work of poetry in English, and one that speaks to our time much the way the Latin Metamorphoses did to Ovid's.
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
March 30, 1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Les Métamorphoses
November 3, 1999, Larousse
Mass Market Paperback
in French
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Tales from Ovid
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Les métamorphoses
1992, Editions Flammarion
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in French and Latin
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Publius Ovidius Naso: The XV bookes entytuled metamorphosis
June 1977, Walter J Johnson
Hardcover
in English
- Repr. 1567 edition
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Originally published: London, Faber & Faber, 1997.
Comprises 24 stories from Metamorphoses.
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The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to be his ultimate work, comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem portrays a history of the world from creation up to the deification of Julius Caesar. Metamorphoses is viewed as one of the most influential works in Western culture, inspiring authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Boccaccio. It has also inspired countless works of art from various artists throughout the centuries.
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