Metamorphoseon (Pitt Press Series Latin, Series Number 1)

By Ovid

Book Overview

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a freshunderstanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521058708
• ISBN13: 9780521058704
• Release Date: January 1953
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.3" x 6.7"