Larger	Tales from Ovid Author: Ovid
	Book Information Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 1 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780374228415 - ISBN-10: 0374228418 Publication Date: 12/1997 Pages: 257

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.