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Title: Metamorphoses by Ovid, Rolfe Humphries ISBN: 0-253-20001-6 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: June, 1955 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating tales of murder, mayhem and wrathful gods
Comment: I really don't know about how faithful this was to the original, because I don't speak Latin. I read this book solely because I like mythology.
This book is very good reading with tales of murders, rapes, betrayals, honour, battles, incest and you name it! If it was made into a movie it probably would be NC-17!
I must warn you that the author has a habit of referring to gods and goddesses by multiple names. For example one god will be referred to by his name, son of x, grandson of y,etc. There are also tons of characters that are introduced.
It might help if you take some notes while reading this book, but it is well worth the read if you like mythology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect hassle-free reading
Comment: There is a review on the back cover of the book, from British Book News. It says " a book every literate person ought to own", I couldn't agree more.
Several reviews here critisize Melville's translation for not preserving the Ovid's poetry. Well, i whole-hartedly couldn't care less about Ovid's poety. I'm much more interested in the stories, and I found this translation to be READABLE! Something lacking in many others. This is a translation that you can sit down with and read. You don't need a dictionary and you don't have to work to decifer the meaning of each line.
Metamorphoses is important to anyone who desires to learn about mythology. It collects all the stories that you know, and some you don't all together. It's a wonderful referance for students, not to mention entertaining. The explanitory notes are excellent and the index is useful.
Rating: 4
Summary: Seeing the Metamorphoses
Comment: This translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by A.D. Melville has some good points as well as some bad points. The stories are well told. They are put into English that is easy to understand; yet Melville maintains much of the original prose. The biggest downfall would be the arrangement of the stories is slightly random and hard to follow when one attempts to read straight through the work. However, each story in itself is well written and portrays the idea of its appropriate myth. The notes at the back of the text help the reader to understand ideas that might not be obvious to a reader in this 20th century, where many of us have little background in mythology. There is also a glossary that the reader may use to find specific stories about certain characters. In my mythology class, I found this method especially useful in projects in which require finding many stories about a certain god, for instance. Perhaps the most important aspect of Ovid's renditions of the myths is that they contain many details about surroundings or the visual contexts of the myths, which help a reader to relate more easily. This may not be found in other texts dealing with the same myths. Many texts focus more on the story itself and the events occurring. If one is a visual learner, perhaps this book would be most helpful in understanding and interpreting many of the important myths. All in all, this is a pretty good book, yet there may be one that better serves to tie the myths together in an easy to follow way.
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Theogony, Works and Days by Hesiod, M. L. West ISBN: 0192839411 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Aeneid of Virgil by Allen Mandelbaum, Virgil, Allen Mandlebaum ISBN: 0553210416 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollodorus, Robin Hard ISBN: 0192839241 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies (Penguin Classics) by Ovid, Peter Green ISBN: 0140443606 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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