Reading Ovid
Stories from the Metamorphoses
Part of Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers
- Author: Peter Jones
- Date Published: March 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521613323
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Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets. The text is accompanied by full vocabulary and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.
Read more- Introduces the reader to the pleasure of reading Ovid in a uniquely accessible way
- Provides full help with vocabulary and grammar, with assistance based on two widely-used courses
- Contains essays and study sections designed to help readers enhance their appreciation of the details of the text
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- Date Published: March 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521613323
- length: 278 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 175 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.592kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Glossary of technical literary terms
Notes for the reader
Translating Ovid
Metre
Suggestions for further reading
1. Deucalion and Pyrrha, Metamorphoses 1.348-415
2. Cupid, Apollo and Daphne, Metamorphoses 1.452-567
3. Io (and Syrinx), Metamorphoses 1.583-746
4. Phaethon, Metamorphoses 2.150-216, 227-238, 260-71, 301-39
5. Diana and Actaeon, Metamorphoses 3.138-252
6. Juno and Semele, Metamorphoses 3.253-315
7. Tiresias, Metamorphoses 3.316-38
8. Echo and Narcissus, Metamorphoses 3.339-510
9. Pyramus and Thisbe, Metamorphoses 4.55-166
10. Arethusa, Metamorphoses 5.572-641
11. Minerva and Arachne, Metamorphoses 6.1-145
12. Cephalus and Procris, Metamorphoses 7.694-756, 796-862
13. Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus, Metamorphoses 8.152-235
14. Baucis and Philemon, Metamorphoses 8.626-724
15. Byblis, Metamorphoses 9.517-665
16. Orpheus, Metamorphoses 10.8-63, 11.1-66
17. Pygmalion, Metamorphoses 10.243-97
18. Venus and Adonis, Metamorphoses 10.519-739
19. Midas, Metamorphoses 11.100-45
Total learning vocabulary.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- 2nd Year Latin, Part I
- Honors Latin IV/V
- Intermediate Latin
- Ovid
- Ovid - Metamorphoses
- The Poetry of Ovid
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