Penguin Classics, February 1983. Trade Paperback. This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The..... More
Penguin Classics, October 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's). -Ezra Pound Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further..... More
Penguin Books, August 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Indiana University Press, March 1995. Trade Paperback. In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary . . . This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar..... More
Immortal Classics /Horace Liveright, Inc., January 1931. Cloth. {6' x 9'} Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Spine is darkened from age. Boards mildly edgeworn with 1/8th inch tear to cloth head of spine. Boards scuffed, with discolored spots and scraps and dust staining, espcieally heavily on..... More
Signet, May 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Harvest/HBJ Book, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature -- classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid -- is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked..... More
Indiana University Press. Trade Paperback. . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique. --Virginia Quarterly Review. More
