Ebook: Metamorphoses: A New Translation

Hailed in Newsweek for his translation of The Poems of Catullus - "Charles Martin is an American poet; he puts the poetry, the immediacy of the streets back into the English Catullus. The effect is electric"--Martin's translation of the Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English."--Jacket.;The shaping of changes -- Of mortal children and immortal lusts -- The wrath of Juno -- Spinning yarns and weaving tales -- Contests of arms and song -- Of praise and punishment -- Of the ties that bind -- Impious acts and exemplary lives -- Desire, deceit, and difficult deliveries -- The songs of Orpheus -- Rome begins at Troy -- Around and about the Iliad -- Spoils of war and pangs of love -- Around and about the Aeneas -- Prophetic acts and visionary dreams.