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Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses

By: Ovid, David Raeburn - translator, Denis Feeney
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, David Raeburn
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This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney.

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

©2004 David Raeburn (P)2019 Penguin Audio Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Classics Epic Poetry Themes & Styles Ancient History Ancient Greece Heartfelt Witty
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Choosing a free audiobook of a literary classic was probably my first mistake. It was good all up, though the narrators had some odd pronunciation (I know there are multiple ways to pronounce these names depending on where you're from) and -most annoyingly - inconsistent pronunciation of names/words. All up it was hard going, but the stories are, well, literally classics, so well worth the effort. Some translations were strange-pretty sure the ancient Romans didn't have a word for 'atoms'. Ovid was correct in his epilogue that we'll be telling his poems until the end of time.

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