Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses

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Pub. Date: 2007-03-12
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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 those of 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 and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. vii
List of mapsp. viii
Prefacep. ix
List of abbreviationsp. x
Introductionp. 1
Metamorphoses and this selectionp. 1
Ovid's lifep. 2
Some features of this selectionp. 5
Ovid's godsp. 7
Women and woodsp. 7
Amor and rape in Ovidp. 8
Ovid and epicp. 10
Irony and paradoxp. 11
Stylep. 12
Some assessmentsp. 13
After-lifep. 15
Glossary of technical literary termsp. 17
Notes for the readerp. 19
Translating Ovidp. 22
Metrep. 23
Suggestions for further readingp. 27
Mapsp. 29
Passages
Deucalion and Pyrrha, Metamorphoses 1.348-415p. 33
Cupid, Apollo and Daphne, Metamorphoses 1.452-567p. 45
Io (and Syrinx), Metamorphoses 1.583-746p. 61
Phaethon, Metamorphoses 2.150-216, 227-38, 260-71, 301-39p. 77
Diana and Actaeon, Metamorphoses 3.138-252p. 91
Juno and Semele, Metamorphoses 3.253-315p. 102
Tiresias, Metamorphoses 3.316-38p. 109
Echo and Narcissus, Metamorphoses 3.339-510p. 113
Pyramus and Thisbe, Metamorphoses 4.55-166p. 130
Arethusa, Metamorphoses 5.572-641p. 142
Minerva and Arachne, Metamorphoses 6.1-145p. 149
Cephalus and Procris, Metamorphoses 7.694-756, 796-862p. 162
Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus, Metamorphoses 8.152-235p. 175
Baucis and Philemon, Metamorphoses 8.626-724p. 185
Byblis, Metamorphoses 9.517-665p. 196
Orpheus, Metamorphoses 10.8-63, 11.1-66p. 210
Pygmalion, Metamorphoses 10.243-97p. 222
Venus and Adonis, Metamorphoses 10.519-739p. 228
Midas, Metamorphoses 11.100-45p. 250
Total learning vocabularyp. 255
Grammar indexp. 271
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