Metamorphoses

by Ovid; Martin, Charles; Knox, Bernard M. W.

• ISBN13: 9780393058109
• ISBN10: 0393058107
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Ovid's epic poem?hose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages?s one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.

Author Biography

Charles Martin is a professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
A Note on This Translation	p. 3
The Shaping of Changes	p. 13
Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts	p. 49
The Wrath of Juno	p. 89
Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales	p. 121
Contests of Arms and Song	p. 157
Of Praise and Punishment	p. 187
Of the Ties That Bind	p. 221
Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives	p. 261
Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries	p. 301
The Songs of Orpheus	p. 339
Rome Begins at Troy	p. 367
Around and About the Iliad	p. 405
Spoils of War and Pangs of Love	p. 435
Around and about with Aeneas	p. 479
Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams	p. 519
Notes	p. 555
Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses	p. 577
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