Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-12 (Classical Texts): Metamorphoses Ix-XII (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Softcover

Ovid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856686468 ISBN 13: 9780856686467

Publisher: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1999

Ovid's poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. The work displays his mature genius and has become a standard treasure-house of mythology for all succeeding generations. The complete work has been edited for this series by Donald Hill. Each volume includes the Latin text with a line by line parallel prose translation, and notes which trace Ovid's sources and his influence on literature and art. The volumes stand alone, but the whole is complete in four volumes, and the final volume contains a complete index. Metamorphoses Books IX-XII is the third of the four volumes, the others are: Metamorphoses Books I-IV (1985), Metamorphoses Books V-VIII (1992) and Metamorphoses Books XIII-XV with complete index (2000).

Synopsis:

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a work which displays his mature genius and is a treasure house of mythology. This volume continues in the same style as books I-IV, V-VIII; with a line by line translation and notes which trace Ovid's sources and his influence on literature and art. It has, however, been designed to stand alone or to be read as a sequel to the earlier volumes. This is the penultimate volume of Metamorphoses, a work which continues to fascinate each generation and has an enduring value both for classicists and for students of comparative literature.

About the Author:

Donald E. Hill was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Classics, Newcastle University, and is the editor of the complete Metamorphoses in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.

• Publisher: Aris & Phillips Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0856686468
• ISBN 13: 9780856686467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: D.E. Hill