Metamorphoses : a new translation, contexts, criticism / translated and edited by Charles Martin.
| Author/creator | Ovid |
| Other author | Martin, Charles, 1942- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton, ©2010. |
| Description | xxix, 551 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Metamorphoses. English |
| Series | A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. ^A538572 |
| Contents | Brief Life of Ovid -- Text of Metamorphoses -- Bk. I. Shaping of Changes -- Bk. II. Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts -- Bk. III. Wrath of Juno -- Bk. IV. Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales -- Bk. V. Contests of Arms and Song -- Bk. VI. Of Praise and Punishment -- Bk. VII. Of the Ties That Bind -- Bk. VIII. Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives -- Bk. IX. Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries -- Bk. X. Songs of Orpheus -- Bk. XI. Rome Begins at Troy -- Bk. XII. Around and About the Iliad -- Bk. XIII. Spoils of War and Pangs of Love -- Bk. XIV. Around and About with Aeneas -- Bk. XV. Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams -- Contexts -- Ovid in His Time and Ours / Bernard Knox -- Two Anecdotes of Ovid / Seneca the Elder -- Influences, Anxious and Benign -- From Works and Days / Hesiod -- From De rerum natura / Lucretius -- Hymn VI: To Demeter / Callimachus -- From the Aeneid / Virgil -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and Pantomime Dancing / Charles Martin -- Criticism -- [A Work of Such Wide Importance] / J. W. Mackall -- Roman in His Prime / Diane Middlebrook -- Ovid and Universal Contiguity / Italo Calvino -- Daphne, or Metamorphosis / Norman O. Brown -- Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | Translated from Latin. |
| LCCN | 2009038963 |
| ISBN | 9780393925340 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 039392534X (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PA6522.M2 M44 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |