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Ovid: Metamorphoses I
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This edition, featuring Guy Lee's comprehensive commentary and detailed introduction, is ideal for students and scholars of classical literature seeking a deep understanding of Ovid's text and its poetic structure.
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See moreThis intermediate reader offers text, vocabulary, and notes. The notes focus on fine points of grammar and rhetoric, shades of meaning, and allusions to both classical and modern literature.
This intermediate reader offers text, vocabulary, and notes, focussing on fine points of grammar and rhetoric, shades of meaning, and allusions to both classical and modern literature
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The first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses contains an interesting variety of material. It begins with myths related to the creation of the world and man, the decline from the golden age, the flood, and the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha. In the second half, it deals primarily with two main metamorphosis myths—Apollo's love for Daphne and the story of Io.
Guy Lee's edition, first published by CUP in 1952, provides a detailed commentary of explanatory notes with a useful index and, separately, a number of critical notes on the readings adopted by his text. The substantial introduction deals with Ovid himself, the Metamorphoses, and Ovid's other works. There is also a practical section on the Ovidian hexameter and a sensitive section on translations of the Metamorphoses, in particular the works of Golding, Sandys, and Dryden, reflecting the expertise of an editor who is a consummate translator of Latin poetry.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780862921446
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 1991
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol Classical Press
Edition: New edition
Contributors:
- Volume editor A.G. Lee
- Translated with commentary by A.G. Lee
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 262g
Pages: 170
About the Author
A.G. Lee was Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College and University Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge, UK.
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