Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806114569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson’s skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience. In his introduction the editor discusses Ovid’s career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.

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.

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: William Scovil Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book VI of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹

Author: Antonio Ramírez de Verger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110731789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423

Book Description
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".

Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII

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

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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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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.

Venus and Adonis

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806109602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Joseph B. Solodow
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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.