Tales from Ovid / [translated by] Ted Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Contributor:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Metamorphoses. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metamorphosis--Mythology--Poetry.

Metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis--Mythology.

Mythology, Classical--Poetry.

Mythology, Classical.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, 1997.

Summary:

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 rering 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.

Contents:

Creation; Four Ages; Lycaon; Flood

Phaethon

Callisto and Arcas

The Rape of Proserpina

Arethusa

Tiresias

Echo and Narcissus

Erysichthon

Semele

Peleus and Thetis

Actaeon

Myrrha

Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)

Pygmalion

Hercules and Deianira

The Birth of Hercules

The Death of Cygnus

Arachne

Bacchus and Pentheus

Midas

Niobe

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

Tereus

Pyramus and Thisbe.

Notes:

Originally published: London, Faber & Faber, 1997.

Comprises 24 stories from Metamorphoses.

ISBN:

0374525870

9780374525873

OCLC:

41598163