Metamorphoses : a new verse translation
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.2004
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"Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and lcarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This lively, accessible new translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original. The edition contains an introduction discussing the life and work of Ovid as well as a preface to each book, explanatory notes and an index of people, gods and places"--Back cover.
Main title:
Metamorphoses : a new verse translation / Ovid ; translated by David Raeburn ; with an introduction by Denis Feeney.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2004.
Collation:
xli, 723 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
A new translation of Ovid's exuberant poem, which tells of the various transformations of gods and mortals, and was influential in bringing the mythology of the anicent world to the early modern and modern era.Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxvi) and index.Translated from the Latin.
Contents:
PrefaceChronologyIntroductionTranslator's noteMetamorphosesBook 1PrologueThe creationThe four agesThe giantsLycaönThe floodDeucalion and PyrrhaPythonDaphneIo (1)Interlude : Pan and SyrinxIo (2)Phaëthon (1)Book 2Phaëthon (2)CallistoThe raven and the crowOcyrhoëBattusAglaurosEuropaBook 3CadmusActaeonSemeleTeiresiasNarcissus and EchoPentheus and Bacchus (1)Acoetes and the Lydian sailorsPentheus and Bacchus (2)Book 4The daughter of Minyas (1)Pyramus and ThisbeMars and VenusLeucothoë and ClytiëSalmacis and HermaphroditusThe daughters of Minyas (2)Ino and AthamasCadmus and HarmoniaPerseus (1)Book 5Perseus (2)Minerva and the musesCalliope's song : the rape of Proserpina; Triptolemus and LyncusThe daughters of PierusBook 6ArachneNiobeThe Lycian peasantsMarsyasPelopsTereus, Procne and PhilomelaBoreas and OrithyiaBook 7Medea and JasonThe rejuvenation of AesonThe punishment of PeliasMedea's flightTheseus and AegeusMinos and AeacusThe plague at AeginaThe birth of the MyrmidonsCephalus and ProcrisBook 8Scylla and MinosThe minotaur and AriadneDaedalus and IcarusDaedalus and PerdixMeleäger and the Calydonian boarAchelous, the Naiads and PerimelePhilemon and BaucisErysichthonBook 9Acheloüs and HerculesHercules and NessusThe death of HerculesAlcmena and GalanthisDryopeIolaüs and Callirhoë's sonsMiletusByblisIphisBook 10Orpheus and EurydiceCyparissusOrpheus' song : introduction; Ganymede; Hyacinthus; the Cerastae and Propeotides; Pygmalion; Myrrha; Venus and Adonis (1)Venus' story : Atalanta and HippomenesOrpheus' song : Venus and Adonis (2)Book 11The death of OrpheusThe punishment of the MaenadsMidasLaömedon's treacheryPeleus and ThetisPeleus at the court of Ceÿx (1)Ceÿx's story : DaedalionPeleus at the court of Ceÿx (2)Ceÿx and AlcyoneAesacusBook 12The Greeks at AulisRumourCygnusAchilles' victory celebrationCaenisThe battle of the Lapiths and centaursPericlymenusThe death of AchillesBook 13The judgment of armsAjax's suicideThe fall of TroyThe sufferings of HecubaMemnonThe wanderings of Aeneas (1)The daughters of AniusThe daughters of OrionThe wanderings of Aeneas (2)Acis, Galatea and PolyphemusGlaucus and Scylla (1)Book 14Glaucus and Scylla (2)The wanderings of Aeneas (3)The sibyl of CumaeAchaemenides' story : Ulysses' men in Polyphemus' caveMacareus' story : Ulysses and Circe; Picus, Canens and CirceThe wanderings of Aeneas (4)The mutinous companions of DiomedesThe Apulian shepherdThe ships of AeneasArdeaThe apotheosis of AeneasAeneas' descendantsPomona and VertumnusIphis and AnaxareteRomulusThe apotheosis of RomulusBook 15MyscelusPythagorasEgeria and HippolytusTages, Romulus' spear, CipusAesculapiusThe apotheosis of Julius CaesarEpilogue.
ISBN:
9780140447897 (paperback)
Dewey class:
871.01
Local class:
871.01
Language:
EnglishLatin
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BRN:
89478
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 871.01 OVI | pbkAvailable |