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Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature. “The Metamorphoses is conceived on the grandest possible scale. The number and variety of the metamorphoses are stunning: gods and goddesses, heroes and nymphs, mortal men and women are changed into wolves and bears, frogs and pigs, bulls. In his 'Metamorphoses,' Ovid weaves a rich tapestry of images from nature. Innes and Frank Justus Miller http://www.rafimetz.com.
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I was about to dive into Michael Hofmann's 'After Ovid: New Metamorphoses' but before doing so, I thought it prudent to read a complete translation of the original, since many years have passed since I read Books 6, 10, 11 and 12 and I'm no longer sure that I ever did work my way through the entire set. At first reading, this particular translation (by Mary Innes) doesn't resonate with a lot of color but it seems to be scholarly and unpretentious, which is probably a good thing for my present purposes.I would regard this translation as a good reference volume, covering the full range of the stories but the charm of Ovid's verse doesn't really shine through. Fortunately for all of us, poets, novelists, playwrights, librettists and composers of ballet have, over the centuries taken hundreds of these tales on a merry ride and adapted them to all manner of locales and time periods. The themes of envy, lust, chicanery and of course transformations of all kinds are timeless, lending themselves to limitless adaptations. The Metamorphoses or 'Transformations' is an epic that is truly 'epic' in scope, beginning with the creation of the universe and ending with the world of contemporary Rome. It is composed of a series of stories, Greek and Roman myths that Ovid shapes and weaves together into a continuous history of gods and humans. As the title announces, the central theme is one of constant change, and we see gods and humans amazingly transformed from one shape to another.
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The poem recasts and preserves most of the major Greek and Roman myths that are familiar to us, often in surprising ways. Ovid was known for his wit and cleverness, and in the poem he explores the nature of love, power, change, deception, the nature of art, and personal identity.
He, like Virgil, also explores what it means to be Roman, but in a much more subversive way. Ovid's poetry was seen as so subversive, in fact, that the emperor Augustus exiled him to the town of Tomis on the Black Sea, where he continued to write, never to return to his beloved Rome. Annotation by Professor Wally Englert.
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