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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: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-01-29
Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-29 with Poetry categories.
'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Ovid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and 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 extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original. Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY
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 Books I Viii
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Metamorphoses Books I Viii written by Ovid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The World Of Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Joseph B. Solodow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-02-01
The World Of Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Joseph B. Solodow and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Synthesizing a wealth of detailed observations, Joseph Solodow studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and Virgil's presentations of Aeneas. He argues that for Ovid metamorphosis is an act of clarification, a form of artistic creation, and that the metamorphosed creatures in his poem are comparable to works of art. These figures ultimately aid us in perceiving and understanding the world.
Metamorphoses
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Author : A. D. Melville
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1998-05-07
Metamorphoses written by A. D. Melville and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-07 with Poetry categories.
The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.
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.
Metamorphosis
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Author : David Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Metamorphosis written by David Gallagher and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 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.
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.
Ovid S Metamorphoses Bk V Viii
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1794
Ovid S Metamorphoses Bk V Viii written by Ovid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1794 with categories.