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Ovids Metamorphoses

This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)." Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed--often by love--into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spense, and the character of English Renaissance writing. --Johns Hopkins.

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  • "Metamorphoses"
  • "Metamorphoses"@en
  • "Garth's Ovid"@en
  • "Metamorphoseon libri"
  • "Ovid's Metamorphoses in European culture"@en
  • "Ovids̕ Metamorphoses in European culture"
  • "Works of the British poets, including the most esteemed translations from the Greek and Roman authors, collated with the best editions by Thomas Park"@en
  • "Metamorphoses. liber VI-X. Latin. 1972"@en

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  • "This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)." Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed--often by love--into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spense, and the character of English Renaissance writing. --Johns Hopkins."@en
  • "This introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magicand illusion."
  • "1. Transforming Bodies, Transforming Epic. 2. Creation, Flood, and Fire. 3. Cadmus and the Tragic Dynasty of Thebes. 4. Human Artistry and Divine Jealousy. 5. The Lives of Women. 6. Aspects of Love. 7. Heroes--Old Style and New. 8. Fantasy, the Fabulous, and the Miraculous Metamorphoses of Nature. 9. Genre and Narrative: Ovid's Polymorphous Poem. 10. After Ovid. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Index of Persons. General Index."@en
  • "Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem's effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off.--Hackett Publishing."@en
  • "Metamorphoses is a collection of ancient stories of mythology written in poem form."@en
  • "Full text editions of Ovid's metamorphoses in TEI conformant SGML editions. Text is searchable."@en

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  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Biographies"@en
  • "Internet resources"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Kommentar"
  • "Epic poetry, Latin"@en
  • "Poezja łacińska"
  • "Poems"@en
  • "Fables, Latin"@en
  • "Poetry"
  • "Poetry"@en
  • "Illustrated works"@en
  • "Lehrmittel"
  • "Specimens"@en

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  • "Les métamorphoses"
  • "Ovid's metamorphoses [Metamorphoses, engl.]"
  • "Ovidŝ metamorphoses"
  • "Ovids̕ Metamorphoses"
  • "Ovids Metamorphoses"@en
  • "Metamorphoses"@en
  • "Metamorphoses"
  • "Ovid's Metamorhoses"
  • "Ovid's Metamorphoses"
  • "Ovid's Metamorphoses"@en
  • "Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'"
  • "Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'"@en
  • "Ovid's metamorphoses"
  • "Ovid's metamorphoses"@en

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