Metamorphoses / translated by Rolfe Humphries.
""The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse.""--John Crowe Ransom"" ... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses.""--Francis Fergusson""This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation."" -Mark Van Doren The first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphose.
Record details
- ISBN: 0253200016
- ISBN: 9780253200013
- ISBN: 0253337550
- ISBN: 9780253337559
- ISBN: 0253012414
- ISBN: 9780253012418
- Physical Description: xiv, 401 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1983.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Cover; OVID'S Metamorphoses; Title; Copyright; INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS; BOOK EIGHT; BOOK NINE; BOOK FOURTEEN; BOOK FIFTEEN; BOOK ONE; The Creation; The Four Ages; Jove's Intervention; The Story of Lycaon; The Flood; Deucalion and Pyrrha; Apollo and Daphne; Jove and 10; BOOK TWO; The Story of Phaethon; Jove in Arcady; The Story of the Raven; The Story of Ocyrhoe; Mercury and Battus; Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros; The House of the Goddess Envy; Europa; BOOK THREE; The Story of Cadmus; The Story of Actaeon; The Story of Semele; The Story of Tiresias; The Story of Echo and Narcissus.The Story of Pentheus and Bacchus BOOK FOUR; The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe; The Story of Mars and Venus; The Sun-god and Leucothoe; The Story of Salmacis; The End of the Daughters of Minyas; The Story of Athamas and Ino; The End of Cadmus; The Story of Perseus; BOOK FIVE; The Fighting of Perseus; Minerva Visits the Muses; BOOK SIX; The Story of Niobe; The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; BOOK SEVEN; The Story of Jason and Medea; War Between Crete and Athens; The Story of Cephalus and Procris; The Story of Nisus and Scylla; The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; The Calydomian Boar.The Brand of Meleager The Return of Theseus; The Story of Baucis and Philemon; The Story of Erysichton; The Story of Achelous' Duel for Deianira; The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira; The Story of Hercules' Birth; The Story of Dryope; The Story of Caunus and Byblis; The Story of Iphis and Ianthe; BOOK TEN; The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice; The Story of Cyparissus; The Story of Ganymede; The Story of Apollo and Hyacinthus; Two Incidents of Venus' Anger; The Story of Pygmalion; The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha; The Story of Adonis; Venus Tells Adonis the Story of Atalanta.The Fate of Adonis BOOK ELEVEN; The Death of Orpheus; The Story of Midas; Midas Never Learns; The Building of the Walls of Troy; The Story of Thetis; Tells the Story of Daedalion; The Story of Peleus' Cattle; The Quest of Ceyx; The Story of Aesacus and Hesperia; BOOK TWELVE; The Invasion of Troy; Nestor Tells the Story of Caeneus; Story of the Battle with the Centaurs; Nestor Is Asked Why He Omitted Hercules; BOOK THIRTEEN; The Argument between Ajax and Ulysses; After the Fall; The Sacrifice of Polyxena; The Discovery of Polydorus; The Story of Memmon; The Pilgrimage of Aeneas.The Story of Anius' Daughters The Pilgrimage Resumed; The Story of Galatea; The Song of Polyphemus; The Transformation of Acis; The Story of Glaucus; The Story of Glaucus Continued; The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed; Achaemenides Tells His Story; The Story of Picus; The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed; The Narrative of Diomedes; The Return of Venulus; The Deification of Aeneas; Legendary History of Rome; Pomona and Vertumnus; The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete; More Early Roman History; The Succession of Numa; The Teachings of Pythagoras; The Return of Numa; The Story of Hippolytus.
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