num_pages: 257
description: A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.
language: English
title: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
titlecomplete: Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
genres: Classics, College, Ancient History, Fiction, Ancient, Greek Mythology, 20th Century, Literature, Mythology, Poetry
ratings_count: 2694
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Poetry and Book of the Year, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux