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,
Publius Ovidius Naso, known to the English world as Ovid, was born
in 43 BC in the Abruzzo, Italy, studied oratory in Rome and
travelled to Greece. Intended for public career, he instead devoted
himself to poetry. Amongst his other works are the Amores (loves),
Heroides (heroines) and the Arts Amatoria (art of love). For
reasons which remain unclear, he was banished to the Black Sea by
the Emperor Augustus in AD 8. Grief-stricken, he composed there his
Tristia (elegies). He was never allowed to return to Rome, and died
in exile in AD 17.
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Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His
translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo and Ungaretti have
all been published to great critical acclaim. For the Aeneid he won
the National Book Award. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
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Formerly a Research Fellow and Senior Tutor at the University of
Cambridge, J.C. McKeown is now Professor of Classics at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. His publications include a
commentary on Ovid's Amores and A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities. He
is currently working on The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
which will be published in summer 2013.
"He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him" Vladimir Nabokov
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