[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]
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Publius Ovidius Naso
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Edited by:
Niklas Holzberg
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In collaboration with:
Rolf Kussl
About this book
Both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and The Golden Ass by Apuleius fascinated ancient readers, and they are still being widely received today. This set offers both works in a modern close translation by Niklas Holzberg.
- Attraktives Set im Rahmen des Jubiläums "100 Jahre Tusculum"
- Enthält die Metamorphosen Ovids und des Apuleius
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The Golden Ass (title in the manuscripts: Metamorphoses) by Apuleius (2nd century AD) is the only completely preserved prose novel in Roman literature and one of the greatest in world literature. The story told by a first-person narrator resembles a picaresque novel and has repeatedly inspired modern novelists. The inserted, sometimes extremely piquant novellas, especially the "fairy tale" of Cupid and Psyche, for example in Boccaccio's Decamerone, also had a broad impact. The description of the Isis cult in the last of the eleven books has also always aroused great interest.
A new Tusculum edition - the old one dates from 1958 - is a desideratum because the text has only been interpreted on the basis of modern literary studies since the 1980s (most recently by an internationally renowned research group in Groningen) and the results of this research should definitely be taken into account when editing, translating and cataloguing the work. The German rendering is based on the target language but, unlike that of its predecessors, is as literal as possible and thus fulfils the requirements of a modern bilingual edition.
Part of the Sammlung Tusculum series, this new bilingual edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses replaces Rösch’s now nearly incomprehensible verse translation (the most recent edition of which was published in 1996) and Fink’s prose translation (2007) with a verse translation that is based on modern German.
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