Ovid's MetamorphosesJHU Press, 2002 - 535 pages This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed -- often by love -- into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing. |
Table des matières
threatens war The plague at Aegina Cephalus javelin | 9 |
THE FIRST BOOK | 31 |
becomes black conclusion The transformation of Ocyrhoë | 90 |
Cadmus and the serpent of Mars Cadmus sows the serpents | 118 |
THE FIFTH BOOK | 151 |
The fight in Cepheus palace Minerva visits Helicon | 161 |
THE SIXTH BOOK | 175 |
Minerva and Arachne Niobe and her children Diana | 199 |
transformation of Hyacinthus The Propoets and the Cerastes | 312 |
THE ELEVENTH BOOK | 321 |
THE TWELFTH BOOK | 349 |
THE THIRTEENTH BOOK | 371 |
THE FOURTEENTH BOOK | 405 |
The transformation of Scylla Aeneas voyaging Aeneas | 430 |
The story of Myscelus The teachings of Pythagoras | 463 |
31 | 487 |
THE EIGHTH BOOK | 235 |
THE NINTH BOOK | 267 |
of DryopeIolaus recovers his youth Caun and Byblis | 289 |
THE TENTH BOOK | 295 |
GLOSSARY | 512 |
529 | |
530 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
a-land Aeacus Aeolus Anon Arethuse arms Arthur Golding Athamas Bacchus bear behold birds blood body breast Cadmus cast Ceres Cinyras corse count'nance cruel Dame dart daughter death deed dost doth earth erst eyes face father fear fierce fire force frankincense goddess godly gods Golding Golding's addition ground hair hand hath head heart heaven Hippomenes honour horns Howbeit Jove Juno king land light limbs look maid Medea Metamorphoses mighty mind mother mouth neck never night nymphs Ovid Ovid's Pallas Peleus Persey Phaëton Phocus Phoebus pray Procne quoth selfsame shape sight sister sith snake sore stand stay stone stood straight stream sword t'other tears Tereus thee thence therewithal Theseus Thessaly thine things thither thou shalt town tree turned unto Venus waves whereof wicked wife wight wind wings wont wood words wound wrath wretched