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Metamorphoses : a new verse translation /

Title:
Metamorphoses : a new verse translation /
Author:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction / Denis Feeney -- Further reading -- Translator's note -- Metamorphoses: -- Book 1: -- Prologue -- The creation -- The four ages -- The giants -- Lycaön -- The flood -- Deucalion and Pyrrha -- Python -- Daphne -- 10 (1) -- Interlude: -- Pan and Syrinx -- 10 (2) -- Phaëthon (1) -- Book 2: -- Phaëthon (2) -- Callisto -- The raven and the crow -- Ocyrhoë -- Battus -- Aglauros -- Europa -- Book 3: -- Cadmus -- Actaeon -- Semele -- Teiresias -- Narcissus and Echo -- Pentheus and Bacchus (1) -- Acoetes and the Lydian sailors -- Pentheus and Bacchus (2) -- Book 4: -- The daughters of Minyas (1) -- Pyramus and Thisbe -- Mars and Venus -- Leucothoë and Clytië -- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus -- The daughters of Minyas (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 Icarus -- Daedalus and Perdix -- Meläger and the Calydonian 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 judgment 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 mutinous companions of Diomedes -- The Apulian shepherd -- The ships of Aeneas -- Ardea -- The apotheosis of Aeneas -- Aeneas' 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 Julis Caesar -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary index -- Map of Ovid's Mediterranean world.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PA6522.M2 R33 2004 – Available