Which translator is best for The Metamorphoses? Also, I know

I'm actually interested in this as well (Not OP)

The advice I got from a friend who is in the Classics department at my school was Mandelbaum

>>8001839
You should also read the Aeneid.

>>8002260
Thanks
>>8002312
I thought this as well, but Ovid and Virgil almost contemporaries so I figured there's not much need to read one to understand the other.

I thought this sort of kind of was for Kafka's The Metamorphosis. S-sorry.
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>>8002341
doesn't really matter which translation you choose, it's incredibly short and the prose is pretty dry (and prose in germanic languages generally translates pretty well into english anyway)

>>8002406
Thank you. I'll just look for a nice and clean cover then!

Fagles is pretty good, usually between him and Fitzergald is the argument, Chapman and Lattimore, and Poe, but they say Poe is his own, but I would go with Fitzergald though I haven't read him yet

It's Mandelbaum

>>8002590
lol

>>8001839
I read Rolfe Humphries' translation and it was rather dry. I didn't enjoy it at all.

>>8002339
If you want to read Metamorphoses first, then do that. There are a few nice vignettes where Ovid is clearly riffing off the Aeneid, but it's not really that important at all.