After Ovid New Metamorphoses

Name: After Ovid New Metamorphoses
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ISBN: 9780374524784

ISBN-10: 0374524785

ISBN-13: 9780374524784

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Authors: Michael Hofmann, James Lasdun

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Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses. Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth.

James Lasdun lives near Woodstock, New York.



Introduction


Creation / Four Ages / Flood



Flood



Deucalion and Pyrrha



Give: Daphne and Apollo



Io



Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun



The Grip of Envy



Jupiter and Europa



Cadmus and the Dragon



Creation According to Ovid



Bacchus and Pentheus



Pyramus and Thisbe



Salmacis and Hermaphroditus



Cadmus



Atlas



Perseus and Andromeda



Pyreneus and the Muses



The Pomegranate



Ascalaphus



Arethusa Saved



Arachne



Spiderwoman



Niobe



The Lycians



The Flaying of Marsyas



Down Under



Tereus, Procne, Philomela



Medea



The Plague at Aegina



Scylla and Minos



Perdix



The Log of Meleager's Life



Achelow and Pamela



Baucis and Philemon



Erisychthon



Hercules, Deianira, Nessus



A Ballad of Iole and Dryope



Iphis and Ianthe



Orpheus and Eurydice



Death of Orpheus



Orpheus Dies, and the God Seeks Out Silenus



Apollo and Hyacinthus



Pygmalion and Galatea



Ivory and Water



Myrrha



Venus and Adonis



A Flowering



In Phrygia, Birthplace of Embroidery



Mrs Midas



Peleus and Thetis



Aesacus, the Diver



Hecuba



Aurora and Memnon



Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus



Circe



Picus



The Cercopes



Olive Tree



Phoenix



According to Pythagoras



Index of Translators


Biographical Notes