After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

by Michael Hofmann

Book Overview

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374101973
• ISBN13: 9780374101978
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

These stories never age. They metamorphosize.

A collection of stories that we grew up hearing, but with all new skin. These re-tellings give new blood to Ovid and infuse his timeless book with modern spirit. Give: Apollo and Daphne packs a punch with its Elivs-like god and neo-feminist victim. A bevy of talented writers prove that familiar plots do not have to retain their old luster but can be polished anew. After Ovid is a wonderful way to loose yourself in imagination as you see the familiar become at once perverse and natal and finally familiar again.