Metamorphoses [electronic resource] : Penguin Classics
Ovid2020
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This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis
OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition,
David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis
Feeney.
Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry 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 yet playful, the Metamorphoses has
influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and
Titian to Pic...
Main title:
Author:
Ovid, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin UK, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (505 MB, 18:25:20 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Martin JarvisNarrator: John SackvilleNarrator: David RaeburnNarrator: Maya Saroya
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780241429679
Language:
English
BRN:
439026
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