{"id":1245,"date":"2024-11-01T17:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:42:45","slug":"27-ovid-43-bc-ad-17-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/27-ovid-43-bc-ad-17-18\/","title":{"rendered":"27. Ovid (43 BC &#8211; AD 17\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Original language: Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read <strong>Metamorphoses<\/strong> in the Penguin Classics edition (2004), translated by David Raeburn, with an introduction by Denis Feeney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ovid.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ovid.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ovid-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing that great. A catalog\/encyclopedia of Greek and Roman myths, but it only superficially goes into each myth, unlike, say, the Greek dramatists who would devote a whole play to a myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s hard to translate verse and wordplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last thoughts on Ovid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was a real disappointment. Nothing special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original language: Latin. I read Metamorphoses in the Penguin Classics edition (2004), translated by David Raeburn, with an introduction by Denis Feeney. Nothing that great. A catalog\/encyclopedia of Greek and Roman myths, but it only superficially goes into each myth, unlike, say, the Greek dramatists who would devote a whole play to a myth. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}