Ovid - Selected Works

The compilers, J.C and M.J. Thornton, have used the translations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which they believe render more faithfully than those of any other age the even clarity of Ovid's style. The volume commences with Marlowe's free translation of The Elegies, which has a youthful zest about it that might well have saved it from oblivion even without Marlowe's later fame. Next comes The Letters of the Heroines, translated by George Turberville, followed by Francis Wolfe...