Ted Hughes, Editor, Ovid, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-22841-5
During his lifetime, the first-century Latin poet Ovid made a notoriously reluctant moralist. Ever since the Middle Ages, however, when commentators took the Metamorphoses for divinely inspired Christian allegory, readers have freely attached their...
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Allen Mandelbaum, Translator, Ovid, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $40 (559p) ISBN 978-0-15-170529-0
Mandelbaum, whose translation of The Aeneid won the National Book Award, has rendered Ovid's compilation of classical myths into verse. And the poem is as flowing and metamorphic as the gods and heroes who fill its pages. For example, Book IV tells...
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David R. Slavitt, Translator, Ovid, Author Johns Hopkins University Press $45 (360p) ISBN 978-0-8018-4797-4
Composed between 2 and 8 A.D., Ovid's (43 B.C.-?A.D. 17) epic poem purports to tell the story of the universe. Competing over the centuries with such formidable adversaries as the Bible, the Upanishads , Darwin, and modern physics, The Metamorphoses
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Ovid, trans. from the Ancient Greek by Stephanie McCarter. Penguin, $38 (608p) ISBN 978-0-525-50599-0
“Ovid’s Metamorphoses resists easy categorization. It is, strictly put, an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention of ancient epic poetry,” McCarter (Carmen Saeculare) writes in the fascinating introduction to her trailblazing...
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