Binding: Hardcover
Description: A bold transformative new translation of Ovid's classic Ovid's epic poem has with its timeless stories inspired and influenced generations of writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. The events it describes - the flight of Icarus the music of Orpheus Perseus rescue of Andromeda the fall of Troy - speak toward the essence of human experience: of power of fate and most fundamentally of transformation. Stephanie Mc Carter's new rendering the first female translation in over sixty years places its emphasis on the sexual violence at the heart of the poem - nearly fifty of the epic's tales involve the rape or attempted rape of women. While past translations have often obscured or mitigated this fact expressing Ovid's language in consensual terms Mc Carter considers it explicitly and so offers a powerful new exploration of this essential work.
Title: Metamorphoses
Author(s): Ovid
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Barcode: 9780525505990
Pages: 544 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Poetry