
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Essential Metamorphoses
About this book
The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid's self-styled history from the world's first origins down to my own time, this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus--and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Detailed Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text, Abridgment, and Introduction
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- Book 4
- Book 6
- Book 7
- Book 8
- Book 9
- Book 10
- Book 11
- Book 13
- Book 14
- Book 15
- Glossary of Main Characters
- Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
- Back Cover