The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Complete Edition
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The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Complete Edition
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Author : Ovid
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-07-30
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Complete Edition 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 2017-07-30 with categories.
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Complete Edition by Ovid The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Although meeting the criteria for an epic, the poem defies simple genre classification by its use of varying themes and tones. Ovid took inspiration from the genre of metamorphosis poetry, and some of the Metamorphoses derives from earlier treatment of the same myths; however, he diverged significantly from all of his models. One of the most influential works in Western culture, the Metamorphoses has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in acclaimed works of sculpture, painting, and music. Although interest in Ovid faded after the Renaissance, there was a resurgence of attention to his work towards the end of the 20th century; today, the Metamorphoses continues to inspire and be retold through various media. The work has been the subject of numerous translations into English, the first by William Caxton in 1480. Ovid's decision to make myth the dominant subject of the Metamorphoses was influenced by the predisposition of Alexandrian poetry. However, whereas it served in that tradition as the cause for moral reflection or insight, he made it instead the "object of play and artful manipulation". The model for a collection of metamorphosis myths derived from a pre-existing genre of metamorphosis poetry in the Hellenistic tradition, of which the earliest known example is Boio(s)' Ornithogonia -- a now-fragmentary poem collecting myths about the metamorphoses of humans into birds.
Ovid The Metamorphoses A Complete New Version
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Author : Horace Gregory
language : en
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Release Date : 1958
Ovid The Metamorphoses A Complete New Version written by Horace Gregory and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Latin poetry categories.
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.
Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-13
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 2018-04-13 with History categories.
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
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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 I Iv
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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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.
The Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
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The Metamorphoses Of Ovid
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-01-18
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid written by Ovid and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid — is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story to display a dazzling array of miraculous changes, from the time chaos is transformed into order at the moment of creation, to the time when the soul of Julius Caeser is turned into a star and set in the heavens. In its earthiness, its psychological acuity, this classic work continues to speak over the centuries to our time. "Reading Mandelbaum's extraordinary translation, one imagines Ovid in his darkest moods with the heart of Baudelaire...Brilliant."—Booklist
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.