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Author : Lisa Florman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262561557
A radical new interpretation of Picasso and his relation to the classical seen through the artist's prints of the 1930s.
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005719450
Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199245499
An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Author : Paul M. C. Forbes Irving
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:30000001220353
The transformation of people into animals, plants, and stones is one of the most common and characteristic themes of Greek mythology, embodying as well some of the most mysterious and fantastic episodes in a mythology that is sometimes considered to be relatively realistic and lacking in fantasy. This book, the first study of these myths in English, analyzes the various ways in which they imagine and explore the experience of changing one's form. Irving's unusual approach is to look for their meaning not in long-forgotten rituals or historical events, but in their imaginative appeal as stories.
Author : Emma Aston
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Liège
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782821895638
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.
Author : Anthony Etherin,Clara Daneri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913421058
Author : Mary Zimmerman,David R. Slavitt
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810119802
This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues.
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798592892974
"It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history" - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings to endings, from life to death, from moments of delicious joy to episodes of depravity and abjection.The madness and chaos of some 250 stories, spanning around 700 lines of poetry per book, are woven together by the theme of metamorphosis or transformation. The artistic dexterity involved in pulling off this literary feat is testimony to Ovid's skill and ambition as a poet. This accomplishment also goes a long way in explaining the rightful place the Metamorphoses holds within the canon of classical literature, placed as it is beside other great epics of Mediterranean antiquity such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid.
Author : John Warden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802065937
The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always the same. Early Greek evidence for the Orpheus myth and a speculative explanation of its origins are offered along with chapters on the treatments of the myth by Virgil and Ovid, on Orpheus and Christianity, and on the allegorizing treatment of Orpheus which characterizes the Middle Ages. Orpheus in the Renaissance is studied in the work of the philosopher Marsilio Ficino; in Italian art from 1400 to 1600; in operas by Peri and Monteverdi; in a religious allegorical play by Calderon; and in the writings of Spenser, Milton, and Bacon. The Orpheus myth has been crucial in the defining of a culture. Its history demonstrates effectively the persistence and plasticity of myth.
Author : Stephen Hinds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 052133506X
Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency amongst critics to withhold from his writing the close, word-by-word, engagement which is its due. The primary aim of The Metamorphosis of Persephone is to celebrate this poet's detailed verbal art. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone. Dr Hinds' work is a close reading of the account in Metamorphoses 5. The book is at once a literary historical enquiry into the double transformation of the rape of Persephone, and a critical exploration of the self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in and between these twin Ovidian narratives. This attractively written and subtly nuanced literary study, which offers many quiet challenges to established modes of reading Latin narrative poetry, will be of interest both to scholars of Latin and to students of narrative in other languages.
Author : Nina MacLaughlin
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721091
In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth I am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people’s tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I’ll tell it myself. Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses, populate the famous myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses. But what happens when the story of the chase comes in the voice of the woman fleeing her rape? When the beloved coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When tales of monstrous transfiguration are sung by those transformed? In voices both mythic and modern, Wake, Siren revisits each account of love, loss, rape, revenge, and change. It lays bare the violence that undergirds and lurks in the heart of Ovid’s narratives, stories that helped build and perpetuate the distorted portrayal of women across centuries of art and literature. Drawing on the rhythms of epic poetry and alt rock, of everyday speech and folk song, of fireside whisperings and therapy sessions, Nina MacLaughlin, the acclaimed author of Hammer Head, recovers what is lost when the stories of women are told and translated by men. She breathes new life into these fraught and well-loved myths.
Author : Sarah Annes Brown
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060839027
The impact of Ovid's Metamorphoses on our culture can hardly be overestimated. The poem is one of the most exciting and accessible classical texts, our key source for nearly all the famous myths of Greece and Rome. Sarah Annes Brown offers a lively, and sometimes provocative, introduction to the Metamorphoses, exploring the impact of recent critical developments and tracing its rich afterlife in both high and popular culture. The book's later chapters are devoted to five of the most memorable Ovidian stories - Apollo and Daphne, Actaeon, Philomela, Arachne and Pygmalion. Each subtle and elusive story is found to have generated a huge range of creative responses. The influence of the Pygmalion myth, for example, can be traced in Frankenstein, Vertigo and Blade Runner, as well as in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Author : Ev Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0965622908
Presents information about the book "Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion," written by Ev Cochrane and published by Aeon Publishing in Ames, Iowa. Provides a summary and a table of contents.
Author : R. G. A. Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Metamorphosis
ISBN : 1383038201
This is an illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Author : Ovid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253034496
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before—sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious—from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god. In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid's swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
