Metamorphoses : a new verse translation
Ovid (Author), D. A. Raeburn (Translator), D. C. Feeney (Writer of introduction)
"Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and lcarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This lively, accessible new translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original. The edition contains an introduction discussing the life and work of Ovid as well as a preface to each book, explanatory notes and an index of people, gods and places"--Back cover
Fables, Latin
xli, 723 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
9780140447897, 014044789X
54691285
Preface
Chronology
Introduction / Denis Feeney
Further reading
Translator's note
Metamorphoses:
Book 1:
Prologue
The creation
The four ages
The giants
Lycaön
The flood
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Python
Daphne
10 (1)
Interlude:
Pan and Syrinx
10 (2)
Phaëthon (1)
Book 2:
Phaëthon (2)
Callisto
The raven and the crow
Ocyrhoë
Battus
Aglauros
Europa
Book 3:
Cadmus
Actaeon
Semele
Teiresias
Narcissus and Echo
Pentheus and Bacchus (1)
Acoetes and the Lydian sailors
Pentheus and Bacchus (2)
Book 4:
The daughters of Minyas (1)
Pyramus and Thisbe
Mars and Venus
Leucothoë and Clytië
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
The daughters of Minyas (2)
Ino and Athamas
Cadmus and Harmonia
Perseus (1)
Book 5:
Perseus (2)
Minerva and the Muses
Calliope's song:
The rape of Proserpina
Arethusa
Triptolemus and Lyncus
The daughters of Pierus
Book 6:
Arachne
Niobe
The Lycian peasants
Marsyas
Pelops
Tereus, Procne and Philomela
Boreas and Orithyia
Book 7:
Medea and Jason
The rejuvenation of Aeson
The punishment of Pelias
Medea's flight
Theseus and Aegeus
Minos and Aeacus
The plague at Aegina
The birth of the Myrmidons
Cephalus and Procris
Book 8:
Scylla and Minos
The Minotaur and Ariadne
Daedalus and Icarus
Daedalus and Perdix
Meläger and the Calydonian boar
Acheloüs, the Naiads and Perimele
Philemon and Baucis
Erysichthon
Book 9:
Acheloüs and Hercules
Hercules and Nessus
The death of Hercules
Alcmena and Galanthis
Dryope
Iolaüs and Callirhoë's sons
Miletus
Byblis
Iphis
Book 10:
Orpheus and Eurydice
Cyparissus
Orpheus' song:
Introduction
Ganymede
Hyacinthus
The Cerastae and Propoetides
Pygmalion
Myrrha
Venus and Adonis (1)
Venus' story:
Atalanta and Hippomenes
Orpheus' song:
Venus and Adonis (2)
Book 11:
The death of Orpheus
The punishment of the Maenads
Midas
Laömedon's treachery
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus at the court of Ceÿx (1)
Ceÿx's story:
Daedalion
Peleus at the court of Ceÿx (2)
Ceÿx and Alcyone
Aesacus
Book 12:
The Greeks at Aulis
Rumour
Cycnus
Achilles' victory celebration
Caenis
The battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Periclymenus
The death of Achilles
Book 13:
The judgment of arms
Ajax's suicide
The fall of Troy
The sufferings of Hecuba
Memnon
The wanderings of Aeneas (1)
The daughters of Anius
The daughters of Orion
The wanderings of Aeneas (2)
Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus
Glaucus and Scylla (1)
Book 14:
Glaucus and Scylla (2)
The wanderings of Aeneas (3)
The mutinous companions of Diomedes
The Apulian shepherd
The ships of Aeneas
Ardea
The apotheosis of Aeneas
Aeneas' descendants
Pomona and Vertumnus
Iphis and Anaxarete
Romulus
The apotheosis of Romulus
Book 15:
Myscelus
Pythagoras
Egeria and Hippolytus
Tages, Romulus' spear, Cipus
Aesculapius
The apotheosis of Julis Caesar
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary index
Map of Ovid's Mediterranean world
Translated from the Latin