Metamorphoses
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 1998
529 pages
978-0-19-156129-0 (ISBN)
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The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Historical Sketch
- Introduction
- Translator's Note
- Select Bibliography
- METAMORPHOSES
- BOOK I
- The Creation
- The Ages of Mankind
- The Flood
- Deucalion and Pyrrha
- Apollo and Daphne
- Io
- Phaethon
- BOOK II
- Phaethon (cont.)
- Callisto
- The Raven and the Crow
- Ocyrhoe
- Mercury and Battus
- The Envy of Aglauros
- Jupiter and Europa
- BOOK III
- Cadmus
- Diana and Actaeon
- Semele and the Birth of Bacchus
- Tiresias
- Narcissus and Echo
- Pentheus and Bacchus
- BOOK IV
- The Daughters of Minyas
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- The Sun in Love
- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
- The Daughters of Minyas Transformed
- Athamas and Ino
- The Transformation of Cadmus
- Perseus and Andromeda
- BOOK V
- Perseus' Fight in the Palace of Cepheus
- Minerva Meets the Muses on Helicon
- The Rape of Proserpine
- Arethusa
- Triptolemus
- BOOK VI
- Arachne
- Niobe
- The Lycian Peasants
- Marsyas
- Pelops
- Tereus, Procne, and Philomela
- Boreas and Orithyia
- BOOK VII
- Medea and Jason
- Medea and Aeson
- Medea and Pelias: her Flight
- Theseus
- Minos, Aeacus, the Plague at Aegina, the Myrmidons
- Cephalus and Procris
- BOOK VIII
- Scylla and Minos
- The Minotaur
- Daedalus and Icarus
- Perdix
- Meleager and the Calydonian Boar
- Althaea and Meleager
- Achelous and the Nymphs
- Philemon and Baucis
- Erysichthon and his Daughter
- BOOK IX
- Achelous and Hercules
- Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira
- The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules
- The Birth of Hercules
- Dryope
- lolaus and the Sons of Callirhoe
- Byblis
- Iphis and lanthe
- BOOK X
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- Cyparissus
- Ganymede
- Hyacinth
- Pygmalion
- Myrrha
- Venus and Adonis
- Atalanta
- BOOK XI
- The Death of Orpheus
- Midas
- First Foundation and Destruction of Troy
- Peleus and Thetis
- Daedalion
- The Cattle of Peleus
- Ceyx and Alcyone
- Aesacus
- BOOK XII
- The Expedition against Troy
- Achilles and Cycnus
- Caenis
- The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
- Nestor and Hercules
- The Death of Achilles
- BOOK XIII
- Ajax and Ulysses and the Arms of Achilles
- The Fall of Troy
- Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus
- Memnon
- The Pilgrimage of Aeneas
- Acis and Galatea
- Scylla and Glaucus
- BOOK XIV
- Scylla and Glaucus (cont.)
- The Pilgrimage of Aeneas (cont.)
- The Island of Circe
- Picus and Canens
- The Triumph and Apotheosis of Aeneas
- Pomona and Vertumnus
- Legends of Early Rome
- The Apotheosis of Romulus
- BOOK XV
- Numa and the Foundation of Crotona
- The Doctrines of Pythagoras
- The Death of Numa
- Hippolytus
- Cipus
- Aesculapius
- The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar
- Epilogue
- Explanatory Notes
- Glossary and Index of Names
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
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- P
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