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Ovid Metamorphoses (Hardback) Penguin Clothbound Classics

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Genre: Poetry, Fiction Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2016 Item Width: 5.3 in Book Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. EAN: 9780141394619 Item Height: 1.8 in Country of Origin: GB Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Release Year: 2014 Item Length: 8.1 in ISBN: 9780141394619 Publication Name: Metamorphoses Book Title: Metamorphoses Topic: Classics, Epic, General, Ancient & Classical Illustrator: Yes Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Contributor: Denis Feeney (Introduction by) Translator: David Raeburn ISBN-10: 0141394617 Language: English Author: Ovid Item Weight: 31.1 Oz Number of Pages: 768 Pages gtin13: 9780141394619 Title: Metamorphoses Release Date: 04/03/2014

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Further Details Title: Metamorphoses Condition: New Translator: David Raeburn Contributor: David Raeburn (Translated by), Denis Feeney (Introduction by) Author: Ovid EAN: 9780141394619 ISBN: 9780141394619 Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0141394617 Genre: Poetry & Drama Topic: Language & Reference, Literary Criticism Release Date: 04/03/2014 Language: English, Latin Item Height: 204mm Item Length: 138mm Item Width: 48mm Item Weight: 894g Description: Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. Ovid (43BC-18AD) was born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. Coming from a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming the most distinguished poet of his time. His works, all published in Penguin Classics, include Amores , a collection of short love poems; Heroides , verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers; Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love; and Metamorphoses, his epic work that has inspired countless writers and artists through the ages. David Raeburn is a lecturer in Classics at Oxford, and has also translated Sophocles' Electra and Other Plays for Penguin Classics. Denis Feeney is Professor of Classics at Princeton. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Release Year: 2014 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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