TITLE: Metamorphoses AUTHOR: Ovid [Publius /ovidus Naso] DATE PUBLISHED: A long time ago, somewhere around 8 A.D.? ___________________ DESCRIPTION: Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first ...
“God himself helps those who dare.” in "Metamorphoses (Norton Critical Edition)" by Ovid (Author), Charles Martin (Translator)When I think on Ovid and Shakespeare, my own poetic streak resurfaces. Read at your own peril (word of warning: If you don't know either your Shakespeare or your Ovid, what f...
My Square Markers and "Virgin" Bingo Card: "Virgin" card posted for ease of tracking and comparison. Black Kitty:Read but not called Black Vignette:Called but not read Black Kitty in Black Vignette:Read and Called Black Kitty Center Square: Read = Called Current Status of Spr...
This book is phenomenal. I had read parts of the Metamorphoses in high school, and my focus then was on the language and structure of the text, not so much on the stories. That's just what happens when you're trying to learn how to translate texts from Latin. When I picked up the book again ear...
PrefaceMapsIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslation and Latin TextSummary of 'Fasti'Omissions from 'Fasti'Ovid's Fasti--Book 1--Book 2--Book 3--Book 4--Book 5--Book 6NotesList of AbbreviationsGlossary
Nature is a cruel joke. It plagues us with natural disasters and disease, the destructive potential of which is equalled only by our own tempestuous inclinations. We heal the damage wrought by these forces the best we can with Apollo’s gifts: we heal the sick with medicine, we shed light where there...
The first thing that came into my mind as I was reading this book is a concept that was developed by the Ancient Greek philosopher Democritus: matter is never created or destroyed, it only ever changes form. Then there is the idea Ovid explores: the universe in which we live is in a constant state o...
Ovid's Heroides is kind of like Carol Ann Duffy's World's Wife, except, you know, about two thousand years older. There are twenty-one poems, all written in the form of letters, mostly from wronged women in mythology to the men who have wronged them. We have Penelope henpecking Ulysses to come home ...
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