Metamorphoses: A New Translation

Metamorphoses: A New Translation

Author: Ovid

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005-01-17

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 0393072436

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"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.


A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 1009197630

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Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).


Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0253034493

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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.


The Play of Fictions

The Play of Fictions

Author: A. M. Keith

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780472102747

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A lucid analysis of the characterization of Ovidian narrative


Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Author: Mary Zimmerman

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0810119803

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This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues.


Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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"It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history" - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings to endings, from life to death, from moments of delicious joy to episodes of depravity and abjection.The madness and chaos of some 250 stories, spanning around 700 lines of poetry per book, are woven together by the theme of metamorphosis or transformation. The artistic dexterity involved in pulling off this literary feat is testimony to Ovid's skill and ambition as a poet. This accomplishment also goes a long way in explaining the rightful place the Metamorphoses holds within the canon of classical literature, placed as it is beside other great epics of Mediterranean antiquity such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid.


Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018-04-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780253033697

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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.


Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Elaine Fantham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-07-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0190288493

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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations from the original are translated into English. Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the creation of the world to his own sophisticated times, illustrating the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magic, and illusion. Elaine Fantham introduces the reader not only to this marvelous and complex narrative poem, but to the Greek and Roman traditions behind Ovid's tales of transformation and a selection of the images and texts that it inspired.


Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Author: Genevieve Liveley

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-12-23

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1441170812

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Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on: • Literary, historical and cultural context • Key themes • Reading the text • Reception and influence • Further reading