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Metamorphoses: Book Vlll (Bk.8): Book VIII

Metamorphoses: Book Vlll (Bk.8): Book VIII Hardback - 1984

by Ovid, Ovid

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  • Title Metamorphoses: Book Vlll (Bk.8): Book VIII
  • Author Ovid, Ovid
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, U.S.A.
  • Date January 12, 1984
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR004116473
  • ISBN 9780198144601

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Summary

Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars. First published in 1567, this landmark translation by Arthur Golding was the first major English edition of the epic, which includes such tales as the legend of Narcissus; the parable of Icarus; and the passion held by the witch-queen Circe for the great Aeneas. A compelling adaptation that used imagery familiar to English sixteenth-century society, it powerfully influenced Spenser, Shakespeare and the character of Elizabethan literature.

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I AM nitidum retegente diem noctisque fugante tempora Lucifero cadit eurus, et umida surgunt nubila: dant placidi cursum redeuntibus austri Aeacidis Cephaloque, quibus feliciter acti ante exspectatum portus tenuere petitos.