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Book Tragedy in Ovid

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  • Author : Dan Curley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-18
  • ISBN : 1107244528
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Tragedy in Ovid written by Dan Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters, motifs and modalities in the Heroides and the Metamorphoses. In writing love letters, Ovid's heroines and heroes display their suffering in an epistolary theater. In telling transformation stories, Ovid offers an exploded view of the traditional theater, although his characters never stray too far from their dramatic origins. Both works constitute an intratextual network of tragic stories that anticipate the theatrical excesses of Seneca and reflect the all-encompassing spirit of Roman imperium.

Book Tragedy in Ovid

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  • Author : Dan Curley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-18
  • ISBN : 1107009537
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Tragedy in Ovid written by Dan Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.

Book The Tragedy of Ovid

Download or read book The Tragedy of Ovid written by and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tragedy of Ovid

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  • Author : Aston Cokayne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1669
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The Tragedy of Ovid written by Aston Cokayne and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Metamorphoses  Books I VIII

Download or read book Metamorphoses Books I VIII written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tragedy of Ovid

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  • Author : Aston Cokayne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1662
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tragedy of Ovid written by Aston Cokayne and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life  Love and Death in Latin Poetry

Download or read book Life Love and Death in Latin Poetry written by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

Book Ovid  Metamorphoses  3 511 733

Download or read book Ovid Metamorphoses 3 511 733 written by Ingo Zissos Andrew Gildenhard and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb.The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions.This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Book The Tragedy of Ovid

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  • Author : Sir Aston Cokayne (baronet)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1662
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Tragedy of Ovid written by Sir Aston Cokayne (baronet) and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amores

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Amores written by Ovid and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel latin & English texts.

Book Character is Destiny

Download or read book Character is Destiny written by Christopher V. Trinacty (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heroides

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2004-11-25
  • ISBN : 0141913096
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Heroides written by Ovid and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful Penelope wonders at the suspiciously long absence of Ulysses, while Dido bitterly reproaches Aeneas for too eagerly leaving her bed to follow his destiny, and Sappho - the only historical figure portrayed here - describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon. In the poetic letters between Paris and Helen the lovers seem oblivious to the tragedy prophesied for them, while in another exchange the youthful Leander asserts his foolhardy eagerness to risk his life to be with his beloved Hero.

Book Ovid As An Epic Poet

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  • Author : Brooks Otis
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 9780521143172
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Ovid As An Epic Poet written by Brooks Otis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.

Book Tragedy of Ovid

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  • Author : Aston Cokayne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1662
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

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Book Tales from Ovid

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  • Author : Ted Hughes
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 1999-03-30
  • ISBN : 9780374525873
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Tales from Ovid written by Ted Hughes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

Book Metamorphoses  A New Translation

Download or read book Metamorphoses A New Translation written by Ovid and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.

Book Ovid

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  • Author : Stephen E. Loomes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780958609616
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Ovid written by Stephen E. Loomes and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: