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Metamorphoses : a new translation, contexts, criticism / Ovid ; translated and edited by Charles Martin.

Title
  1. Metamorphoses : a new translation, contexts, criticism / Ovid ; translated and edited by Charles Martin.
Published by
  1. New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.
Author
  1. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

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Additional authors
  1. Martin, Charles, 1942-
Description
  1. xxix, 551 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. This book offers a translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis, accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and commentary, as well as five interpretations by Bernard Knox, J.R.R. Mackail, Norman O. Brown, Italo Calvino, and Diane Middlebrook.
Series statement
  1. Norton critical edition
Uniform title
  1. Metamorphoses. English
  2. Norton critical edition
Alternative title
  1. Metamorphoses.
Subject
  1. Ovidius Naso, Publius v43-17 Metamorphoses
  2. Fables, Latin -- Translations into English
  3. Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
  4. Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
Genre/Form
  1. Poetry
  2. Translations
Contents
  1. Brief Life of Ovid -- Text of Metamorphoses -- Bk. I. Shaping of Changes -- Bk. II. Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts -- Bk. III. Wrath of Juno -- Bk. IV. Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales -- Bk. V. Contests of Arms and Song -- Bk. VI. Of Praise and Punishment -- Bk. VII. Of the Ties That Bind -- Bk. VIII. Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives -- Bk. IX. Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries -- Bk. X. Songs of Orpheus -- Bk. XI. Rome Begins at Troy -- Bk. XII. Around and About the Iliad -- Bk. XIII. Spoils of War and Pangs of Love -- Bk. XIV. Around and About with Aeneas -- Bk. XV. Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams -- Contexts -- Ovid in His Time and Ours / Bernard Knox -- Two Anecdotes of Ovid / Seneca the Elder -- Influences, Anxious and Benign -- From Works and Days / Hesiod -- From De rerum natura / Lucretius -- Hymn VI: To Demeter / Callimachus -- From the Aeneid / Virgil -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and Pantomime Dancing / Charles Martin -- Criticism -- [A Work of Such Wide Importance] / J. W. Mackall -- Roman in His Prime / Diane Middlebrook -- Ovid and Universal Contiguity / Italo Calvino -- Daphne, or Metamorphosis / Norman O. Brown -- Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  1. Translated from Latin.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain