Tales from Ovid

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374525873
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

Tales from Ovid

Author: Ovid
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374228415
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Twenty-four stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses tell of the effects of passion on such mythological figures as Bacchus, Venus, Hercules, and Narcissus

Tales from Ovid

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 9780374228392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Tales from Ovid

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571258891
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poetwere somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.

Shapeshifters

Author: Adrian Mitchell
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845075361
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Behold the great shapeshifter himself, boldly casting poetic spells." - Roger McGough "Adrian Mitchell makes these tales of human overreaching and natural vengeance sharply up to date. Children will be entranced, but there's plenty for adults too." - Andrew Marr Bursting into life in the hands of Adrian Mitchell, here are 30 of the brightest, loveliest and most powerful myths ever written - stories of gods such as Jove, Apollo, Juno, Venus and Mercury and of mortals such as Daphne, Narcissus, Adonis, Phaeton and Persephone . Re-created from Ovid's Metamorphoses in stories, ballads and headline news, they sing aloud on the page. Breathtaking artwork by the most acclaimed fantasy illustrator of our time transforms the stories into a living, breathing children's classic to bewitch a new generation raised in a world of special effects.

Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII

Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128948
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
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.

Reading Ovid

Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849012
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.

Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253034493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
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.

Wake, Siren

Author: Nina MacLaughlin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374721092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth I am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people’s tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I’ll tell it myself. Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses, populate the famous myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses. But what happens when the story of the chase comes in the voice of the woman fleeing her rape? When the beloved coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When tales of monstrous transfiguration are sung by those transformed? In voices both mythic and modern, Wake, Siren revisits each account of love, loss, rape, revenge, and change. It lays bare the violence that undergirds and lurks in the heart of Ovid’s narratives, stories that helped build and perpetuate the distorted portrayal of women across centuries of art and literature. Drawing on the rhythms of epic poetry and alt rock, of everyday speech and folk song, of fireside whisperings and therapy sessions, Nina MacLaughlin, the acclaimed author of Hammer Head, recovers what is lost when the stories of women are told and translated by men. She breathes new life into these fraught and well-loved myths.