Ovid

Metamorphoses (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Raeburn, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Ovid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original.

Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141906256
• Artikelnr.: 38136667

Autorenporträt

DAVID RAEBURN is a lecturer in Classics at Oxford. He has translated Sophocles & directed numerous school/ university productions of Greek tragedies. DENIS FEENEY is Professor of Classics at Princeton. RICHARD ASHDOWNE is in the Department of Comparative Philology, Linguisits and Phonetics, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

MetamorphosesPreface Chronology Introduction Further Reading Translator's Note Metamorphoses Book 1 Prologue
The Creation
The Four Ages
The Giants
Lycaön
The Flood
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Python
Daphne
Io (1)
Interlude: Pan and Syrinx
Io (2)
Phaëton (1) Book 2 Phaëton (2)
Callisto
The Raven and the Crow
Ocyrho#235;
Battus
Aglauros
Europa Book 3 Cadmus
Actaeon
Semele
Teiresias
Narcissus and Echo
Pentheus and Bacchus (1)
Acotetes and the Lydian Sailors
Pentheus and Bacchus (2) Book 4 The Daughters of Miniyas (1)
Pyramus and Thisbe
Mars and Venus
Leucotho#235; and Lyti#235;
Slmacis and Hermaphroditus
The Daughters of Miniyas (2)
Ino and Athamas
Cadmus and Harmonia
Perseus (1) Book 5 Perseus (2)
Minerva and the Muses
Calliope's Song: The Rape of Proserpina; Arethusa; Triptolemus and Lyncus
The Daughters of Pierus Book 6 Arachne
Niobe
The Lycian Peasants
Marsyas
Pelops
Tereus, Procne and Philomela
Boreas and Orithyia Book 7 Medea and Jason
The Rejuvenation of Aeson
The Punishment of Pelias
Medea's Flight
Theseus and Aegeus
Minos and Aeacus
The Plague at Aegina
The Birth of the Myrmidons
Cephalus and Procris Book 8 Scylla and Minos
The Minotaur and Ariadne
Daedalus and Perdix
Meleäger and the Calyydonian Boar
Acheloüs, the Naiads and Perimele
Philemon and Baucis
Erysichthon Book 9 Acheloüs and Hercules
Hercules and Nessus
The Death of Hercules
Alcmena and Galanthis
Dryope
Iolaüs and Callirhoë's Sons
Miletus
Byblis
Iphis Book 10 Orpheus and Eurydice
Cyparissus
Orpheus' Song: Introduction; Ganymede; Hyacinthus; The Cerastae and Propoetides; Pygmalion; Myrrha; Venus and Adonis (1)
Venus' Story: Atalanta and Hippomenes
Orpheus' Song: Venus and Adonis (2) Book 11 The Death of Orpheus
The Punishment of the Maenads
Midas
Laömedon's Treachery
Peleus and Thetis
Peleus at the Court of Ceÿx (1)
Ceÿx's Story: Daedalion
Peleus at the Court of Ceÿx (2)
Ceÿx and Alcyone
Aesacus Book 12 The Greeks at Aulis
Rumour
Cycnus
Achilles' Victory Celebration
Caenis
The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Periclymenus
The Death of Achilles Book 13 The Judgement of Arms
Ajax's Suicide
The Fall of Troy
The Sufferings of Hecuba
Memnon
The Wanderings of Aeneas (1)
The Daughters of Anius
The Daughters of Orion
The Wanderings of Aeneas (2)
Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus
Glaucus and Scylla (1) Book 14 Glaucus and Scylla (2)
The Wanderings of Aeneas (3)
The Sibyl of Cumae
Achaemenides' Story: Ulysses' Men in Plyphemus' Cave
Macareus' Story: Ulysses and Circe; Picus, Canens and Circe
The Wanderings of Aeneus (4)
The Mutinous Companions of Diomedes
The Apulian Shepherd
The Ships of Aeneus
Ardea
The Apotheosis of Aeneus
Aeneus' Descendants
Pomona and Vertumnus
Iphis and Anaxarete
Romulus
The Apotheosis of Romulus Book 15 Myscelus
Pythagoras
Egeria and Hippolytus
Tages, Romulus' Spear, Cipus
Aesculapius
The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar
Epilogue Notes Glossary Index Map of Ovid's Mediterranean World