| #47870 in Books | imusti | 2010-09-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.10 x5.50 x8.40l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 538 pages | HACKETT||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Greek and Roman Myths|By Scrambler|Am glad to have this as a Kindle edition of Ovid's telling of ancient myths. Currently (Summer, 2013) am engaged in an online discussion of these myths. Am complimenting Martin's translation with two others, one in prose and the other by Mandelbaum -- which I rather prefer to Martin for the rendering of the poetry. Seldom can any one transl||
|Stanley Lombardo successfully matches Ovid's human drama, imaginative brio, and irresistible momentum; and Ralph Johnson’s superb Introduction to Ovid's 'narratological paradise' is a bonus to this new and vigorous translation that should not be mi
Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Metamorphoses (Hackett Classics) | Ovid. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
