Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition - Softcover

Ovid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253033594 ISBN 13: 9780253033598

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2018

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<p><p>Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i> is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before—sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious—from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the <i>Metamorphoses</i>. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god.</p><br><p>In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers.</p><br><p>This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.</p></p>

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<p><p>Poet and critic Rolfe Humphries (1894–1969) also translated Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i>, Lucretius's <i>On the Nature of Things</i>, Ovid's <i>Art of Love</i>, and Juvenal's <em>Satires.</em></p> <p>Joseph D. Reed is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of <i>Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid</i>.</p></p>

Poet and critic Rolfe Humphries (1894–1969) also translated Virgil's Aeneid, Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Ovid's Art of Love, and Juvenal's Satires.

Joseph D. Reed is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid.

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Ovid Metamorphoses

By Rolfe Humphries

Indiana University Press

Copyright © 1955 Indiana University Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-253-03359-8

Contents

Introduction, v, 
BOOK ONE, 3, 
The Creation, 3, 
The Four Ages, 5, 
Jove's Intervention, 8, 
The Story of Lycaon, 9, 
The Flood, 11, 
Deucalion and Pyrrha, 12, 
Apollo and Daphne, 16, 
Jove and Io, 21, 
BOOK TWO, 28, 
The Story of Phaethon, 28, 
Jove in Arcady, 40, 
The Story of the Raven, 45, 
The Story of Ocyrhoe, 48, 
Mercury and Battus, 50, 
Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros, 51, 
The House of the Goddess Envy, 52, 
Europa, 54, 
BOOK THREE, 57, 
The Story of Cadmus, 57, 
The Story of Actaeon, 61, 
The Story of Semele, 64, 
The Story of Tiresias, 67, 
The Story of Echo and Narcissus, 67, 
The Story of Pentheus and Bacchus, 73, 
BOOK FOUR, 81, 
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe, 83, 
The Story of Mars and Venus, 86, 
The Sun-god and Leucothoe, 87, 
The Story of Salmacis, 90, 
The End of the Daughters of Minyas, 93, 
The Story of Athamas and Ino, 94, 
The End of Cadmus, 99, 
The Story of Perseus, 100, 
BOOK FIVE, 107, 
The Fighting of Perseus, 107, 
Minerva Visits the Muses, 115, 
BOOK SIX, 129, 
The Story of Niobe, 133, 
The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela, 143, 
BOOK SEVEN, 153, 
The Story of Jason and Medea, 153, 
War Between Crete and Athens, 167, 
The Story of Cephalus and Procris, 174, 
BOOK EIGHT, 181, 
The Story of Nisus and Scylla, 181, 
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus, 187, 
The Calydonian Boar, 190, 
The Brand of Meleager, 195, 
The Return of Theseus, 198, 
The Story of Baucis and Philemon, 200, 
The Story of Erysichthon, 204, 
BOOK NINE, 209, 
The Story of Achelous' Duel for Deianira, 209, 
The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira, 212, 
The Story of Hercules' Birth, 217, 
The Story of Dryope, 219, 
The Story of Caunus and Byblis, 223, 
The Story of Iphis and Ianthe, 229, 
BOOK TEN, 234, 
The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice, 234, 
The Story of Cyparissus, 237, 
The Story of Ganymede, 239, 
The Story of Apollo and Hyacinthus, 239, 
Two Incidents of Venus' Anger, 241, 
The Story of Pygmalion, 241, 
The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha, 243, 
The Story of Adonis, 251, 
Venus Tells Adonis the Story of Atalanta, 252, 
The Fate of Adonis, 257, 
BOOK ELEVEN, 259, 
The Death of Orpheus, 259, 
The Story of Midas, 261, 
Midas Never Learns, 263, 
The Building of the Walls of Troy, 265, 
The Story of Thetis, 266, 
Ceyx Tells the Story of Daedalion, 268, 
The Story of Peleus' Cattle, 270, 
The Quest of Ceyx, 272, 
The Story of Aesacus and Hesperia, 282, 
BOOK TWELVE, 285, 
The Invasion of Troy, 285, 
Nestor Tells the Story of Caeneus, 291, 
Story of the Battle with the Centaurs, 291, 
Nestor Is Asked Why He Omitted Hercules, 301, 
BOOK THIRTEEN, 305, 
The Argument between Ajax and Ulysses, 305, 
After the Fall, 319, 
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 320, 
The Discovery of Polydorus, 323, 
The Story of Memnon, 325, 
The Pilgrimage of Aeneas, 326, 
The Story of Anius' Daughters, 327, 
The Pilgrimage Resumed, 328, 
The Story of Galatea, 330, 
The Song of Polyphemus, 331, 
The Transformation of Acis, 334, 
The Story of Glaucus, 335, 
BOOK FOURTEEN, 338, 
The Story of Glaucus Continued, 338, 
The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed, 340, 
Achaemenides Tells His Story, 344, 
The Story of Picus, 348, 
The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed, 352, 
The Narrative of Diomedes, 352, 
The Return of Venulus, 354, 
The Deification of Aeneas, 356, 
Legendary History of Rome, 357, 
Pomona and Vertumnus, 357, 
The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete, 360, 
More Early Roman History, 362, 
BOOK FIFTEEN, 365, 
The Succession of Numa, 365, 
The Teachings of Pythagoras, 367, 
The Return of Numa, 379, 
The Story of Hippolytus, 380, 
The Story of Cipus, 382, 
The Story of Aesculapius, 384, 
The Deification of Caesar, 388, 
The Epilogue, 392, 
Commentary by J. D. Reed, 393, 
Expanded Glossary and Index, 513, 

CHAPTER 1

My intention is to tell of bodies changed
To different forms; the gods, who made the changes,
Will help me — or I hope so — with a poem
That runs from the world's beginning to our own days.


The Creation

Before the ocean was, or earth, or heaven,
Nature was all alike, a shapelessness,
Chaos, so-called, all rude and lumpy matter,
Nothing but bulk, inert, in whose confusion
Discordant atoms warred: there was no sun
To light the universe; there was no moon
With slender silver crescents filling slowly;
No earth hung balanced in surrounding air;
No sea reached far along the fringe of shore.
Land, to be sure, there was, and air, and ocean,
But land on which no man could stand, and water
No man could swim in, air no man could breathe,
Air without light, substance forever changing,
Forever at war: within a single body
Heat fought with cold, wet fought with dry, the hard
Fought with the soft, things having weight contended


lines 20–56

With weightless things.
Till God, or kindlier Nature,
Settled all argument, and separated
Heaven from earth, water from land, our air
From the high stratosphere, a liberation
So things evolved, and out of blind confusion
Found each its place, bound in eternal order.
The force of fire, that weightless element,
Leaped up and claimed the highest place in heaven;
Below it, air; and under them the earth
Sank with its grosser portions; and the water,
Lowest of all, held up, held in, the land.

Whatever god it was, who out of chaos
Brought order to the universe, and gave it
Division, subdivision, he molded earth,
In the beginning, into a great globe,
Even on every side, and bade the waters
To spread and rise, under the rushing winds,
Surrounding earth; he added ponds and marshes,
He banked the river-channels, and the waters
Feed earth or run to sea, and that great flood
Washes on shores, not banks. He made the plains
Spread wide, the valleys settle, and the forest
Be dressed in leaves; he made the rocky mountains
Rise to full height, and as the vault of Heaven
Has two zones, left and right, and one between them
Hotter than these, the Lord of all Creation
Marked on the earth the same design and pattern.
The torrid zone too hot for men to live in,
The north and south too cold, but in the middle
Varying climate, temperature and season.
Above all things the air, lighter than earth,
Lighter than water, heavier than fire,
Towers and spreads; there mist and cloud assemble,
And fearful thunder and lightning and cold winds,


lines 57–92

But these, by the Creator's order, held
No general dominion; even as it is,
These brothers brawl and quarrel; though each one
Has his own quarter, still, they come near tearing
The universe apart. Eurus is monarch
Of the lands of dawn, the realms of Araby,
The Persian ridges under the rays of morning.
Zephyrus holds the west that glows at sunset,
Boreas, who makes men shiver, holds...

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253033594
• ISBN 13: 9780253033598
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