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Book SynopsisTrade Review"S[oucy]’s translation has great merit. It is more poetic than any current version." * Classics for All *
"Soucy’s Commentary gives lavishly helpful guidance to the piecemeal reader, noticing links and making comparisons between different tales. . . . He’s refreshingly sensitive to the way contemporary concerns with sexual and identity politics can feel urgently addressed by the
Metamorphoses. Equally refreshing, from the other side, is the fact that as a scholar he feels the value and importance of seeing past attitudes clearly, neither discreetly veiling elements in them that might affront a contemporary sensibility – as many translators have done with divine rapes – nor reading them as if Ovid were our contemporary and saw life as we do." * The High Window *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Translator’s Note
METAMORPHOSES
Book 1
Prologue • The First Creation • The Ages of Man • The Gigantomachy •
Lycaön • The Deluge • Deucalion and Pyrrha • The Second
Creation: Python • Apollo and Daphne • Io, Part 1 • Argus:
Pan and Syrinx • Io, Part 2 • Phaëthon, Part 1
Book 2
Phaëthon, Part 2 • The Heliads and Cygnus • Callisto • The Raven
and the Crow • Ocyrhoë • Battus • The Envy of Aglauros • Europa
Book 3
Cadmus and the Dragon’s Teeth • Actaeon • Semele • Tiresias •
Echo and Narcissus • Pentheus and Acoetes
Book 4
The Daughters of Minyas, Part 1 • Pyramus and Thisbe • The Loves
of the Sun • Hermaphroditus and Salmacis • The Daughters of
Minyas, Part 2 • Athamas and Ino • Cadmus and Harmonia • Perseus,
Atlas, and Andromeda • Perseus and Medusa
Book 5
Perseus and Phineus • Proetus and Polydectes • Pyreneus and the
Muses • The Pierides, Part 1 • The Rape of Proserpine • Arethusa •
Lyncus and Triptolemus • The Pierides, Part 2
Book 6
Arachne and Minerva • Niobe • Latona and the Lycians • Marsyas •
Pelops • Tereus, Procne, and Philomela • Boreas and Orithyia
Book 7
Medea • Theseus • The War with Minos • The Myrmidons • Cephalus
and Procris
Book 8
Scylla and Nisus • The Minotaur • Daedalus • The Calydonian
Hunt • Althaea and Meleäger • Acheloüs • Baucis and
Philemon • Mestra and Erysichthon • Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 1
Book 9
Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 2 • The Death of Hercules • Lucina
and Galanthis • Dryope and Lotus • Iolaüs and Themis • Byblis and
Caunus • Iphis and Ianthe
Book 10
Orpheus and Eurydice • Cyparissus • Ganymede and
Hyacinth • The Cerastae, the Propoetides, and
Pygmalion • Myrrha • Venus and Adonis
Book 11
The Death of Orpheus • Midas • Peleus and Thetis • Daedalion
and Chione • The Wolf of Psamathe • Ceÿx and Alcyone • Aesacus
Book 12
The Greeks at Aulis • The House of Rumor • Achilles and Cygnus •
Caenis Becomes Caeneus • The Centauromachy • Hercules and
Periclymenus • The Death of Achilles
Book 13
The Judgment of Arms • The Sorrows of Hecuba • Memnon •
The Daughters of Anius • Galatea, Acis, and Polyphemus • Scylla
and Glaucus, Part 1
Book 14
Scylla and Glaucus, Part 2 • The Sibyl of Cumae • Polyphemus • Ulysses
and Circe • Picus and Canens • The Crew of Diomedes • The Apotheosis
of Aeneas • Pomona and Vertumnus • The Apotheoses of
Romulus and Hersilie
Book 15
Hercules and Croton • Pythagoras • Egeria and Hippolytus •
Cipus • Aesculapius • The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar • Epilogue
Commentary
Appendix: Text and Translation Notes
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Glossary of Names and Places
About the Translator
