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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:43:16 -0800
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: Re: Of interest to some: new reprint of Nims' Golding's Ovid

Patrick Rourke kindly informs us of:
>Ovid's Metamorphoses by Golding, Arthur (trans.); Nims, John Frederick (Ed.)
>Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books, 2000 Trade Paperback. 6"x9". Re-edition of
>the 1567 Arthur Golding Elizabethan translation, edited and w/Introduction
>and Notes by John Frederick Nims, with a new essays, "Shakespeare's Ovid,"
>by Jonathan Bate. $22.95.

I haven't seen this, but I'd guess that, apart from the Bate essay, it's
photographically reproduced from the 1965 Macmillan edition, which was
also edited w. intro. & notes by J.F. Nims.  A sign of the times:
this new paperback costs $22.95; my hardback copy of the earlier printing
cost $7.95.  (I won't add that I paid $3.50 for a pristine used copy.)

I still recall my shock at having to fork out $9.75 in 1972 for a Princeton
Univ. Press "Limited Paperback Edition" of George Kennedy's "The Art of
Rhetoric in the Roman World."  I recall showing it to Lionel Pearson,
who remarked, "This is distressing.  It's the beginning of the end."

And then there is the course currently being taught here on "20th Century
Continental Philosophy," for which the textbook tab runs just over $300.
Apparently the rumors that this is a rich kids' school have some foundation.

P.S. Any opinions as to what Uncle Ez was on when he proclaimed Golding's
Ovid "the most beautiful book in the language"?

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound


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