
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Cambridge University Press
Published on 1. February 2024
Book
1956 pages
978-1-009-32645-2 (ISBN)
Description
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text - from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology - and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 115 mm
Weight
3070 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-32645-2 (9781009326452)
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Persons
Editor
Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Brown University, Rhode Island
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
General editor
New York University
Content
Introduction Alessandro Barchiesi; Commentary on Book 1 Alessandro Barchiesi; Commentary on Book 2 Alessandro Barchiesi; Commentary on Book 3 Alessandro Barchiesi; Commentary on Book 4 Gianpiero Rosati; Commentary on Book 5 Gianpiero Rosati; Commentary on Book 6 Gianpiero Rosati; Bibliography; Introduction to Books 7-9 E. J. Kenney; Commentary on Book 7 E. J. Kenney; Commentary on Book 8 E. J. Kenney; Commentary on Book 9 E. J. Kenney; Preface to Books 10-12 Jay Reed; Commentary on Book 10 Jay Reed; Commentary on Book 11 Jay Reed; Commentary on Book 12 Jay Reed; Bibliography E. J. Kenney and Jay Reed; Commentary on Book 13 Philip Hardie; Commentary on Book 14 Philip Hardie; Commentary on Book 15 Philip Hardie; Bibliography Philip Hardie; Index of Proper Names (Books 1-15); General Index (Books 1-15).