内容简介
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
Includes introduction, a preface to each book, explanatory notes, and an index of people, gods, and places.
作者简介
Ovid (43 BC - AD 18) was a Roman poet who experimented in a variety of different forms from love elegies to mock didactic verse. He died in exile.
David Raeburn is a lecturer in classics at Oxford University. He has translated Sophocles and directed numerous school and university productions of Greek tragedies.
精彩书评
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
前言/序言
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) 变形记 英文原版 [平装] 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) 变形记 英文原版 [平装] 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2024
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) 变形记 英文原版 [平装] mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式下载 2024