MetamorphosesOvid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. In this new, long-anticipated translation of Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Portions of the translation have already appeared in such publications as Arion, The Formalist, The Tennessee Quarterly, and TriQuarterly. |
Contents
BOOKI | 13 |
BOOK II | 49 |
BOOK III | 89 |
BOOK IV | 121 |
BOOK V | 157 |
OF THE TIES THAT BIND | 221 |
BOOK VIII | 261 |
BOOK IX | 301 |
BOOK XI | 367 |
BOOK XII | 405 |
SPOILS OF WAR AND PANGS OF LOVE | 435 |
BOOK XIV | 479 |
BOOK XV | 519 |
Notes | 555 |
Persons Places and Personifications in the Metamorphoses | 577 |
THE SONGS OF ORPHEUS | 339 |
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Achilles Aeacus Aeneas Aeson Ajax Alcmena altar Apollo arms arrow asked Bacchus bear beauty beneath bird blood body Boeotia Book breast brother burned Cadmus Caeneus changed chariot Cinyras clouds cried Cycnus daughter death Deianira Diana earth eyes face fate father fear fierce fire flames flee gave gift goddess gods golden Greek grief groaned hair hand head heaven Hecuba Hercules hero Hippomenes horns husband Iphis Jove Jove's Juno Jupiter king land Lapiths limbs living look maiden Medea Meleager Minerva Minos mother mountain mourning Myscelus neck Neptune nymph once Orpheus Ovid Ovid's passion Peleus Pentheus Perseus Phocus Phoebus Pirithoüs prayers Priam Procne rites river Roman serpent ship shore sister slain speak spear spoke stone story sword tears Tereus Theseus Thessaly Thracian transformed tree Trojan Troy turned Ulysses underworld Venus waves wife wind wings woods words wound