false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158331172m/1715.jpg 1715 134 Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the <I>Metamorphoses</I> has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. 2870411 book 1940 Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) total:2845|5:1075|4:1024|3:587|2:126|1:33| 2845 11517 4386 204 4 3 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 31 06:46:29 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 20 05:17:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 08 03:59:46 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 04:02:33 -0800 2009
No, I don't think it's unhealthy to have lustful fantasies about Ovid. I don't care what you think! I do very much care that his work was lush, provocative ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 21 09:17:26 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 10:36:11 -0800 2008
Clicking on the book icon will expose a fair description of the book. I gave it up because I have scant knowledge of the gods of ancient Greece and Rome.

My impression is that Ovid aimed to entertain with stories about the (fami...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 21:15:42 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 11:23:55 -0700 2009
Each story is connected to the one before it and after it, sometimes by the thinnest of threads, but Ovid manages to make them ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:08:29 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 09:34:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Tue Apr 14 18:35:41 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:48:21 -0700 2009 Edith Hamilton's Mythology (which I soon realized had been more or less a child's collection of Greek myths) when I picked this up, after reading Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, at the advice of my English teacher at the time. I really loved these myths. Wonderful stories. Many of th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 11:42:22 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:22:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 22:10:27 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 20:53:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Jul 02 08:09:10 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 08:10:51 -0700 2007 5 0 true false Mon Aug 24 00:33:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 00:39:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 18:12:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 03:46:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 31 19:15:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 19:17:23 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:20:02 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 08:26:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 00:47:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 09:59:06 -0700 2009 A hard fast boy, a shrewd pert wag that could no manners good;
He laugh`ed at her and in scorn did call her greedy gut."


I read the Arthur Golding translation from 1567. This was somewhat trying and became ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 07 06:02:45 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 25 02:40:05 -0800 2009
There are a great many familiar tales in here, although often with darker details that I'd not encountered before, and with conencitons between stories made plain. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 09:55:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 10:10:35 -0700 2008
I'd been meaning to pick this up since highschool. So many teachers and historians recommended it, and it kept coming up in fiction. I love mythology, but for one reason or another never...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 11 11:23:47 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 13:19:15 -0700 2008
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I am now reading my way through Ovid: Metamorphoses translated by Rolfe Humphries (1955 and 1983, # ISBN-10: 0253337550 and # ISBN-13: 978-0253337559). Ovid (or Publius Ovidius Naso) had finished this, his greatest...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 09 16:56:47 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 04:16:41 -0700 2008

The End of the Daughters of Minyas

….but they kept on with their weaving,
Still scorning Bacchus and his holiday,
When suddenly timbrels sounded, unseen timbrels
Harsh in their ears, flutes piped, and horns resounded
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Ovid, or Publius Ovidius Naso, justly deserves his acclaim as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature alongside Horace and Virgil. And he knows it and doesn't bother to hide it, as he appends this bit of encomium to himself at the very ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1715