| #9310 in Books | Ovid | 2004-08-03 | 2004-08-03 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.30 x5.00l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 768 pages | Metamorphoses||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The most readable Latin classic|By L.Tonesi|Good, readable translation. Reads like a novel, which is what I was looking for. The stories are more violent than I expected - a lot of rape. And being changed into a tree or a stream is no joke either.
But since Shakespeare quotes Ovid's mythology in almost every play, it is useful to know what he is referring to, without||A good translation in clear, dignified, poetic English -- Prof Elaine Fantham, Princeton I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive -- Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford|
