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Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1997
Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.
Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1955
Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with History categories.
"Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to his exile from Rome in 8 a.d. , is the primary source for over two hundred classical legends that survived to the twenty-first century. Many of the most familiar classical myths, including the stories of Apollo and Daphne and Pyramus and Thisbe, come directly from Ovid. The Metamorphoses is a twelve-thousand-line poem, written in dactylic hexameters and arranged loosely in chronological order from the beginning of the universe's creation to the Augustan Rome of Ovid's own time. The major theme of the Metamorphoses, as the title suggests, is metamorphosis, or change. Throughout the fifteen books making up the Metamorphoses, the idea of change is pervasive. Gods are continually transforming their own selves and shapes, as well as the shapes and beings of humans. The theme of power is also ever-present in Ovid's work. The gods as depicted by the Roman poets are wrathful, vengeful, capricious creatures who are forever turning their powers against weaker mortals and half-mortals, especially females. Ovid's own situation as a poet who was exiled because of Augustus's capriciousness is thought by many to be reflected in his depictions of the relationships between the gods and humans." -- from http://www.enotes.com/metamorphoses-of-ovid (Jan. 24, 2011.)
Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-24
Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with Fiction categories.
Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem’s effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off. The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W. R. Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem’s most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects. An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a glossary are also included.
Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1998
Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Collections categories.
The Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, completed around 8AD, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation.
Metamorphoses Books I Viii
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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The Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Signet
Release Date : 1960
The Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Signet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Italian poetry categories.
"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."-"Washington Post"
Metamorphoses A New Translation
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005-01-17
Metamorphoses A New Translation written by Ovid and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-17 with Poetry categories.
"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.
Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Karl Galinsky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1975-01-01
Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Karl Galinsky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The main purpose of this book is to provide an introduction, in the form of a literary study, both to the major aspects of the Metamorphoses and to Ovid's basic aims in the poem. -- Book Jacket.
The Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-10
The Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Poetry categories.
This selection highlights 30 tales from classical mythology: Venus and Adonis, Pygmalion, Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus, Perseus and Andromeda, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Cyclops, and Circe, among others. F. A. Wright translation.
Metamorphosis
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Author : David Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Metamorphosis written by David Gallagher and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid's Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an 'ascending evolutionary scale' (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid's Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society's moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse's Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr's Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.