This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.
MetamorphosesPreface
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Translator's Note
Metamorphoses
Book 1
Prologue - The Creation - The Four Ages - The Giants - Lycaön - The
Flood - Deucalion and Pyrrha - Python - Daphne - Io (1) -
Interlude: Pan and Syrinx - Io (2) - Phaëton (1)
Book 2
Phaëton (2) - Callisto - The Raven and the Crow - Ocyrho#235; -
Battus - Aglauros - Europa
Book 3
Cadmus - Actaeon - Semele - Teiresias - Narcissus and Echo -
Pentheus and Bacchus (1) - Acotetes and the Lydian Sailors -
Pentheus and Bacchus (2)
Book 4
The Daughters of Miniyas (1) - Pyramus and Thisbe - Mars and Venus
- Leucotho#235; and Lyti#235; - Slmacis and Hermaphroditus - The
Daughters of Miniyas (2) - Ino and Athamas - Cadmus and Harmonia -
Perseus (1)
Book 5
Perseus (2) - Minerva and the Muses - Calliope's Song: The Rape of
Proserpina; Arethusa; Triptolemus and Lyncus - The Daughters of
Pierus
Book 6
Arachne - Niobe - The Lycian Peasants - Marsyas - Pelops - Tereus,
Procne and Philomela - Boreas and Orithyia
Book 7
Medea and Jason - The Rejuvenation of Aeson - The Punishment of
Pelias - Medea's Flight - Theseus and Aegeus - Minos and Aeacus -
The Plague at Aegina - The Birth of the Myrmidons - Cephalus and
Procris
Book 8
Scylla and Minos - The Minotaur and Ariadne - Daedalus and Perdix -
Meleäger and the Calyydonian Boar - Acheloüs, the Naiads and
Perimele - Philemon and Baucis - Erysichthon
Book 9
Acheloüs and Hercules - Hercules and Nessus - The Death of Hercules
- Alcmena and Galanthis - Dryope - Iolaüs and Callirhoë's Sons -
Miletus - Byblis - Iphis
Book 10
Orpheus and Eurydice - Cyparissus - Orpheus' Song: Introduction;
Ganymede; Hyacinthus; The Cerastae and Propoetides; Pygmalion;
Myrrha; Venus and Adonis (1) - Venus' Story: Atalanta and
Hippomenes - Orpheus' Song: Venus and Adonis (2)
Book 11
The Death of Orpheus - The Punishment of the Maenads - Midas -
Laömedon's Treachery - Peleus and Thetis - Peleus at the Court of
Ceÿx (1) - Ceÿx's Story: Daedalion - Peleus at the Court of Ceÿx
(2) - Ceÿx and Alcyone - Aesacus
Book 12
The Greeks at Aulis - Rumour - Cycnus - Achilles' Victory
Celebration - Caenis - The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs -
Periclymenus - The Death of Achilles
Book 13
The Judgement of Arms - Ajax's Suicide - The Fall of Troy - The
Sufferings of Hecuba - Memnon - The Wanderings of Aeneas (1) - The
Daughters of Anius - The Daughters of Orion - The Wanderings of
Aeneas (2) - Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus - Glaucus and Scylla
(1)
Book 14
Glaucus and Scylla (2) - The Wanderings of Aeneas (3) - The Sibyl
of Cumae - Achaemenides' Story: Ulysses' Men in Plyphemus' Cave -
Macareus' Story: Ulysses and Circe; Picus, Canens and Circe - The
Wanderings of Aeneus (4) - The Mutinous Companions of Diomedes -
The Apulian Shepherd - The Ships of Aeneus - Ardea - The Apotheosis
of Aeneus - Aeneus' Descendants - Pomona and Vertumnus - Iphis and
Anaxarete - Romulus - The Apotheosis of Romulus
Book 15
Myscelus - Pythagoras - Egeria and Hippolytus - Tages, Romulus'
Spear, Cipus - Aesculapius - The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar-
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary Index
Map of Ovid's Mediterranean World
DAVID RAEBURN is a lecturer in Classics at Oxford. He has translated Sophocles & directed numerous school/ university productions of Greek tragedies. DENIS FEENEY is Professor of Classics at Princeton. RICHARD ASHDOWNE is in the Department of Comparative Philology, Linguisits and Phonetics, Oxford.
A good translation in clear, dignified, poetic English
*Prof Elaine Fantham, Princeton*
I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English
hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly
propulsive
*Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
