Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The book is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for 1997 and has been translated into several languages. It was one of his last published works, along with Birthday Letters. Four of the tales had been previously published in 1995, in After Ovid, New Metamorphoses, edited by M ...
Metamorphoses (Transformations) is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.
George Sandys (/ s æ n d z / "sands"; 2 March 1578 [1] – March 1644) was an English traveller, colonist, poet, and translator. [2] He was known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Passion of Jesus, as well as his travel narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology.
In the case of an oft-used myth such as that of Io in Book I, which was the subject of literary adaptation as early as the 5th century BCE, and as recently as a generation prior to his own, Ovid reorganises and innovates existing material in order to foreground his favoured topics and to embody the key themes of the Metamorphoses.
True enough, in the medieval West, Ovid's work was the principal conduit of Greek myths. [9] Although Ovid's collection is the most known, there are three examples of Metamorphoses by later Hellenistic writers that preceded Ovid's book, but little is known of their contents. [10]
Frank Justus Miller. Frank Justus Miller (1858-1938) was a leading American classicist, translator, and university administrator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.He authored the Loeb Classical Library translations of Seneca and of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and was president of the American Classical League for more than a decade, from 1922 to 1934.
Ovid. Metamorphoses, Books I-IV. Translated by John Allen Giles. London: Cornish & Sons. Ovid (1922). Metamorphoses, Book I, vi. Translated by Brookes More. Boston: Cornhill Publishing Co. Petersson, Robert Torsten (2002). Bernini and the Excesses of Art. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-88-87700-83-1. Pinton, Daniele (2009).
Diana and Actaeon by Titian; the moment of surprise. The myth of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. [1] The tale recounts the fate of a young hunter named Actaeon, who was a grandson of Cadmus, and his encounter with chaste Artemis, known to the Romans as Diana, goddess of the hunt.