The Essential Metamorphoses

The Essential Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1603846646

The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid’s self-styled history from the world's first origins down to my own time, this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus--and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.


Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253034493

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.


Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780806128948

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.


The Metamorphoses of Fat

The Metamorphoses of Fat
Author: Georges Vigarello
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231159765

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.


The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156001267

Through 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. " An] extraordinary translation...brilliant" (Booklist). With an Introduction by the Translator.


Book VI of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹

Book VI of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹
Author: Antonio Ramírez de Verger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110731789

The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two "editiones principes" of 1471 to the present day. The introduction describes the manuscripts used, and a history of the Ovidian editions is also traced. A new text of book VI is presented, accompanied by a slim and lucid critical apparatus. Futher information appears in the commentary and in the appendices, particularly readings of manuscripts and editions. The verbatim commentary offers, with reliable quotes for each term, the critical observations of all the editors and commentators of the Ovidian work throughout the centuries. This aspect of critical edition has been neglected by commentators of Ovid since Heinsius (1659) and Burman (1727). Two appendices ("Readings of manuscripts" and "Readings of editions") are added for the first time for readers of the Ovidian work. The volume closes with a "Select index of textual problems", a large "Index locorum" and an "Index nominum".


Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Marie Louise von Glinski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-02-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1139504207

Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring up a likeness, the mental image of the simile enters a dialectic of appearances in a visually complex and treacherous universe. Original and subtle close readings of episodes in the poem, from Narcissus to Adonis, from Diana's blush to the freeform dreams in the House of Sleep, trace the simile's potential for exploiting indeterminacy and immateriality. In its protean permutations the simile touches on the most profound issues of the poem - the nature of humanity and divinity and the essence of poetic creation.


Repeat Performances

Repeat Performances
Author: Laurel Fulkerson
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299307506

The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.