Poetry Books by Ovid
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Authors: Ovid
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Poetry
Composed in Latin in the early years of the first century by the Roman poet Ovid, the Metamorphoses presents a collection of amazing tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and Roman legend. Ovid was the most gifted storyteller of his age, and the Metamorphoses is his masterpiece. It begins with the creation of the world and continues through the founding of Rome to the reign of the emperor Augustus in Ovid's own time. Many of the great stories from Greek mythology can be found in the Metamorphoses, including those of Apollo and Daphne, Jupiter and Io, Actaeon, Narcissus and Echo, Pyramus and Thisbe, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, and Venus and Adonis. The genial narrator sails unperturbed through tale after tale of love and loss, quest and battle, violence and suffering, human striving and folly. Ovid's wit and verbal adroitness quicken the pace of the narrative and make the work supremely accessible.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Poetry
Composed in Latin in the early years of the first century by the Roman poet Ovid, the Metamorphoses presents a collection of amazing tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and Roman legend. Ovid was the most gifted storyteller of his age, and the Metamorphoses is his masterpiece. It begins with the creation of the world and continues through the founding of Rome to the reign of the emperor Augustus in Ovid's own time. Many of the great stories from Greek mythology can be found in the Metamorphoses, including those of Apollo and Daphne, Jupiter and Io, Actaeon, Narcissus and Echo, Pyramus and Thisbe, Daedalus and Icarus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, and Venus and Adonis. The genial narrator sails unperturbed through tale after tale of love and loss, quest and battle, violence and suffering, human striving and folly. Ovid's wit and verbal adroitness quicken the pace of the narrative and make the work supremely accessible.
Phaethon and Other Stories from Ovid
Authors: G. M. Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 2014-07-17
Categories: History
This book presents the Latin text of the Phaethon myth as recounted by Ovid, together with other stories from the Metamorphoses.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 2014-07-17
Categories: History
This book presents the Latin text of the Phaethon myth as recounted by Ovid, together with other stories from the Metamorphoses.
Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid
Authors: David R Slavitt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published Date: 2011-08-18
Categories: Literary Collections
Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published Date: 2011-08-18
Categories: Literary Collections
Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.
Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI
Authors: Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 1996-03-21
Categories: History
This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. Interest in Ovid has never been more lively than it is today, and this book will have much to offer students at all levels. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these "double" letters. It complements Peter E. Knox's selection of the single epistles in the same series.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 1996-03-21
Categories: History
This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. Interest in Ovid has never been more lively than it is today, and this book will have much to offer students at all levels. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these "double" letters. It complements Peter E. Knox's selection of the single epistles in the same series.
Ovid: Everyman Poetry
Authors: Ovid
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2012-04-26
Categories: Poetry
Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2012-04-26
Categories: Poetry
Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".
Ovid, Metamorphoses X
Authors: Ovid,
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published Date: 2014-12-18
Categories: Literary Criticism
Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples), Venus and Adonis, and Myrrha. This edition contains the Latin text as well as in-depth commentary notes that provide language support, explain difficult words and phrases, highlight literary features and supply background knowledge. The introduction presents an overview of Ovid and the historical and literary context, as well as a plot synopsis and a discussion of the literary genre. Suggested reading is also included.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published Date: 2014-12-18
Categories: Literary Criticism
Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples), Venus and Adonis, and Myrrha. This edition contains the Latin text as well as in-depth commentary notes that provide language support, explain difficult words and phrases, highlight literary features and supply background knowledge. The introduction presents an overview of Ovid and the historical and literary context, as well as a plot synopsis and a discussion of the literary genre. Suggested reading is also included.
Ovid, the Love Poems
Authors: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1999-01-28
Categories: Poetry
Translations of Ovid's love poems.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1999-01-28
Categories: Poetry
Translations of Ovid's love poems.
Ovid's Fasti
Authors: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Literary Criticism
This ground-breaking book celebrates the bimillennial anniversary of the inception of Ovid's Fasti by offering a variety of approaches to Ovid's poem on the Roman religious calendar. The volume does not aim at consensus but brings together experts from around the world without allowing any single prejudice to prevail.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Literary Criticism
This ground-breaking book celebrates the bimillennial anniversary of the inception of Ovid's Fasti by offering a variety of approaches to Ovid's poem on the Roman religious calendar. The volume does not aim at consensus but brings together experts from around the world without allowing any single prejudice to prevail.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Authors: Ovid
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Drama
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Drama
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.