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Metamorphoses Ovid

Metamorphoses By Ovid

Metamorphoses by Ovid


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Now available for the first time in an annotated edition, Rolfe Humphriess legendary translation captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as youve never read them before-sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious.

Metamorphoses Summary

Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious-from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god.


In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers.


This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Metamorphoses Reviews

One of the most captivating books ever written, a whole library of love stories, murder stories, horror stories, fairy stories, and adventure stories. . . Humphries's version. . . has the sound merits of directness, unpretentiousness and integrity. . . [His English is] swift, lucid . . . and admirably suited to its general purpose, the telling of a story. -New York Times

It is very much alive, fresh, racy, and above all, vivid. . . .Humphries reproduces most successfully the speed and animation of Ovid's narrative, its modernity, its gaiety, and its tenderness. -Classical Review

So easy to read that one may have to think twice to realize these tales are nearly 2000 years old. -Washington Post


Not too many 12,000-line translations from the '50s are still in print, let alone getting a brand new set of annotations. About those I wanna say: jam a bookmark back there and read every single note. They're the real thing, impossible to fake. . . . As for the translation as a whole, the main thing it's got going for it is clarity. I, for one, felt I was able to pay attention to the stuff like never before. . . . So I say double thumbs up to Humphries and Reed. Recommended.

* RHINO *

Reed's annotated edition of Ovid's realistic, moving, and influential classic can now easily be adopted for classroom use, and it will also serve the curious who wish to know more about this unparalleled, captivating array of Roman mythology. . . . Highly recommended.

* Choice *

One of the most captivating books ever written, a whole library of love stories, murder stories, horror stories, fairy stories, and adventure stories. . . Humphries's version. . . has the sound merits of directness, unpretentiousness and integrity. . . [His English is] swift, lucid . . . and admirably suited to its general purpose, the telling of a story.

* The New York Times *

So easy to read that one may have to think twice to realize these tales are nearly 2000 years old.

* Washington Post *

It is very much alive, fresh, racy, and above all, vivid. . . .Humphries reproduces most successfully the speed and animation of Ovid's narrative, its modernity, its gaiety, and its tenderness.

* Classical Review *

Joseph Reed's annotation of Rolfe Humphries' translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses strikes an impressive balance between accessibility for general readers with no Latin and detailed analysis for advanced Classics students and researchers.

* Classical Journal Review *

About Ovid

Poet and critic Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) also translated Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Ovid's Art of Love, and Juvenal's Satires.

Joseph D. Reed is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION



BOOK ONE


The Creation


The Four Ages


Jove's Intervention


The Story of Lycaon


The Flood


Deucalion and Pyrrha


Apollo and Daphne


Jove and Io


BOOK TWO


The Story of Phaethon


Jove in Arcady


The Story of the Raven


The Story of Ocyrhoe


Mercury and Battus


Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros


The House of the Goddess Envy


Europa


BOOK THREE


The Story of Cadmus


The Story of Actaeon


The Story of Semele


The Story of Tiresias


The Story of Echo and Narcissus


The Story of Pentheus and Bacchus


BOOK FOUR


The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe


The Story of Mars and Venus


The Sun-god and Leucothoe


The Story of Salmacis


The End of the Daughters of Minyas


The Story of Athamas and Ino


The End of Cadmus


The Story of Perseus


BOOK FIVE


The Fighting of Perseus


Minerva Visits the Muses


BOOK SIX


The Story of Niobe


The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela


BOOK SEVEN


The Story of Jason and Medea


War Between Crete and Athens


The Story of Cephalus and Procris


BOOK EIGHT


The Story of Nisus and Scylla


The Story of Daedalus and Icarus


The Calydonian Boar


The Brand of Meleager


The Return of Theseus


The Story of Baucis and Philemon


The Story of Erysichthon


BOOK NINE


The Story of Achelous' Duel for Deianira


The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira


The Story of Hercules' Birth


The Story of Dry ope


The Story of Caunus and Byblis


The Story of Iphis and Lanthe


BOOK TEN


The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice


The Story of Cyparissus


The Story of Ganymede


The Story of Apollo and Hyacinthus


Two Incidents of Venus Anger


The Story of Pygmalion


The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha


The Story of Adonis


Venus Tells Adonis the Story of Atalanta


The Fate of Adonis


BOOK ELEVEN


The Death of Orpheus


The Story of Midas


Midas Never Learns


The Building of the Walls of Troy


The Story of Thetis


Ceyx Tells the Story of Daedalion


The Story of Peleus' Cattle


The Quest of Ceyx


The Story of Aesacus and Hesperia


BOOK TWELVE


The Invasion of Troy


Nestor Tells the Story of Caeneus


Story of the Battle with the Centaurs


Nestor Is Asked Why He Omitted Hercules


BOOK THIRTEEN


The Argument between Ajax and Ulysses


After the Fall


The Sacrifice of Polyxena


The Discovery of Polydorus


The Story of Memnon


The Pilgrimage of Aeneas


The Story of Anius' Daughters


The Pilgrimage Resumed


The Story of Galatea


The Song of Polyphemus


The Transformation of Acis


The Story of Glaucus


BOOK FOURTEEN


The Story of Glaucus Continued


The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed


Achaemenides Tells His Story


The Story of Picus


The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed


The Narrative of Diomedes


The Return of Venulus


The Deification of Aeneas


Legendary History of Rome


Pomona and Vertumnus


The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete


More Early Roman History


BOOK FIFTEEN


The Succession of Numa


The Teachings of Pythagoras


The Return of Numa


The Story of Hippolytus


The Story of Cipus


The Story of Aesculapius


The Deification of Caesar


The Epilogue



COMMENTARY by Joseph D. Reed


EXPANDED GLOSSARY AND INDEX


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GOR010658453
9780253033598
0253033594
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2018-04-13
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