num_pages: 216
description: 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 Ovids 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.
language: English
title: The Essential Metamorphoses
publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.