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Wikipedia
The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to medieval writers and thus having a great deal of influence on medieval poetry.
- Latin text with English translation
- Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text (An elaborate environment allowing simultaneous access to Latin text, English translations, commentary from multiple sources along with wood cut illustrations by Virgil Solis.)
- Metamorphoses in Latin edition and English translations (From Perseus with hyperlinked commentary, mythological, and grammatical references)
- Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide Traduites en Prose FrancoiseParis,1651
- Latin text
- English translation
- By A. S. Kline, 2000
- Poetry in Translation: Ovid: Metamorphoses. (Enhanced viewer with links and notes. Can be downloaded in different formats.)
- Mythology: Metamorphoses
- By Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden et al., 1717
- By Others:
- Elizabethan Authors: Ovid's Metamorphoses, trans. by Arthur Golding, 1567.
- Ovid's Metamorphoses trans. by George Sandys, 1632.
- Ovid's Metamorphoses trans. by Brooke Moore, 1922.
- By A. S. Kline, 2000
- Insight and commentary
- The Ovid Project: Metamorphising the Metamorphoses (Illustrations by Johann Whilhelm Baur (1600–1640) and anonymous illustrations from George Sandys's edition of 1640.)
- A Honeycomb for Aphrodite by A. S. Kline
- Ovid's Metamorphoses, An introduction and commentary by Larry A. Brown.
- An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Concordance and narrative index.)
- Audio Readings
- Ovid ~ Metamorphoses ~ 08-2008 Selections from Metamorphoses, read in Latin and English by Rafi Metz. Approximately 4 1/2 hours.
- Music
- [1]The Patricia Barber article in Jazz Police describing the stories chosen for Mythologies.
Annotations
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a must read: Quotes galore:
“Deterioria sequor”
I see a better way , and approve it; I follow the worse.
vii. 20
a book of quotes. another
“Tempus edax rerum.”
Time the devourer of everything.
——— your copy here [from Adelaide Aus.]
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/ovid/o9m/index.html——————-
Ovid s Metamorphoses A possible version that crosses Sam’s path;
“George Sandys’ English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is published for the first time in 1626, the first of eight editions to appear over the course of the seventeenth century. In the second edition of his translation, Sandys appends to the end of each book a series of interpretive commentaries, whose purpose he states is “to collect out of sundrie Authors “more
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/
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errata: dash it not be
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/ovid/o9m/book1.html -
A nice one but I kind of hope he read Bess some of the Elegies, especially VI and VII…
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo12.htm