Reading Ovid : stories from the Metamorphōsēs / Peter Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Peter, 1942 April 25-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Reading Ovid presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets. The text is accompanied by full vocabulary, grammar and notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage are designed to point up important detail and to show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.

Contents:

Metamorphoses and this selection 1

Ovid's life 2

Some features of this selection 5

Ovid's gods 7

Women and woods 7

Amor and rape in Ovid 8

Ovid and epic 10

Irony and paradox 11

Style 12

Some assessments 13

After-life 15

Notes for the reader 19

Translating Ovid 22

Metre 23

Passages

1 Deucalion and Pyrrha, Metamorphoses 1.348-415 33

2 Cupid, Apollo and Daphne, Metamorphoses 1.452-567 45

3 Io (and Syrinx), Metamorphoses 1.583-746 61

4 Phaethon, Metamorphoses 2.150-216, 227-38, 260-71, 301-39 77

5 Diana and Actaeon, Metamorphoses 3.138-252 91

6 Juno and Semele, Metamorphoses 3.253-315 102

7 Tiresias, Metamorphoses 3.316-38 109

8 Echo and Narcissus, Metamorphoses 3.339-510 113

9 Pyramus and Thisbe, Metamorphoses 4.55-166 130

10 Arethusa, Metamorphoses 5.572-641 142

11 Minerva and Arachne, Metamorphoses 6.1-145 149

12 Cephalus and Procris, Metamorphoses 7.694-756, 796-862 162

13 Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus, Metamorphoses 8.152-235 175

14 Baucis and Philemon, Metamorphoses 8.626-724 185

15 Byblis, Metamorphoses 9.517-665 196

16 Orpheus, Metamorphoses 10.8-63, 11.1-66 210

17 Pygmalion, Metamorphoses 10.243-97 222

18 Venus and Adonis, Metamorphoses 10.519-739 228

19 Midas, Metamorphoses 11.100-45 250

Total learning vocabulary 255

Grammar index 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521849012

9780521849012

0521613329

9780521613323

OCLC:

74523214