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Title: Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney ISBN: 0-19-283472-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)
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.
Rating: 4
Summary: noteworthy translation of Ovid's masterpiece
Comment: Rolfe Humphries propounds a beautiful rendering of Ovid's Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet in dactylic hexameter, much adorned, and related with almost equally sumptuous depiction as the original, acting to preserve the past and further in the dissemination and promulgation of such poetry and names as Ovids across space and throughout time. Surely something that can survive forever, semper, perpetuo, is worth, at least, perusing. Indefatigable Ovid and His fain knight, Humpries, merit examination, don't You think
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.
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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: The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollodorus, Robin Hard ISBN: 0192839241 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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 Virgil, ALLEN MANDELBAUM, Allen Mandlebaum ISBN: 0553210416 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Homeric Hymns by Homerus, Apostolos N. Athanassakis ISBN: 0801817927 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1976 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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