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Title	:	Metamorphoses
Author	:	Ovid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 723 pages
Published	:	August 3rd 2004 by Penguin (first published 8)
Categories	:	Classics. Poetry. Fantasy. Mythology. Fiction

Metamorphoses Paperback | Pages: 723 pages

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Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes, using contemporary idiom to bring today's reader all the ageless drama and psychological truths vividly intact. --From the book jacket

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Original Title:	Metamorphōseōn librī
ISBN:	014044789X (ISBN13: 9780140447897)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Odysseus, Venus (Goddess), Ares (god), Perseus, Jupiter (God), Orpheus, Aeneas, Minerva, Juno, Hermaphroditus, Ixion, Pan (Greek), Hermes, Heracles, Mercury, Apollo (Greek god), Hero (mythology), Leander (mythology)
Setting:	Ancient mythological world
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Poetry (1994), Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2004)

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I bought this copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses when I was living in Rome. It's the book I was reading on the plane when I left Rome, as the realization sunk in that an awesome and strange adventure was drawing to a close, and it's the book I was still reading when I moved back to Minneapolis and attempted to readjust to life as a Midwestern college undergrad.I was reading Metamorphoses at the cafe a few blocks away from my apartment when a strange man gave me that little terror of a kitten, Monster.

What the fuck Ovid. Save some brilliance for the rest of us.

1000. Metamorphōseōn librī = The Metamorphoses = Books of Transformations, OvidThe Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythic-historical framework.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و نهم ژانویه سال 2014 میلادیعنوان: افسانههای دگردیسی اوید اثر: پوبلیوس اویدیوس نسو برگردان: میرجلال

There's honestly something deeply fascinating to me about reading the words of someone who lived 2000 years ago, who wrote these exact words 2000 years ago, and though I completely understand why reading translation is done - I think reading translated lit is amazing - it is undoubtedly more interesting to read this word-by-word, to see connotations and derivatives and line breaks and literary devices. So yes, I read this in the original Latin! With the help of a lot of vocabulary lists because

Book the First: Of bodies changd to various forms, I sing The world is a constant changes Everything moves and one thing always changes into the other.The earth was created by the god unknown as a sphere hanging in space And life there was an idyll: no crimes, no enmity no wars From veins of vallies, milk and nectar broke; And honey sweating through the pores of oak.But then the human history started and the deterioration began Truth, modesty, and shame, the world forsook: Fraud, avarice, and

Pure awesomeness. More awesome than a jet ski that could fly into space at will and have a little bubble to encompass the rider like Buzz Lightyear's helmet. Cooler than that.

Very enjoyable translation indeed. Highly recommended. But much will depend on how much you are put off by some expanding of the original, and some rhyme (both internal and line-end). For example: "A fisherman, who with his pliant rodwas angling there below, caught sight of them;and then a shepherd leaning on his staffand, too, a peasant leaning on his plowsaw them and were dismayed: they thought that thesemust surely be some gods, sky-voyaging.Now on their left they had already passedthe isle