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Metamorphoses.
Title:
Metamorphoses.
Author:
Ovid.
ISBN:
9780191561290
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1605 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- 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 -- Footnotes.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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