Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subtitle: a Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin
By: Christine L. Albright
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781315265605
Subjects: Latin language; Readers
Description: "Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains:a Latin passage adapted from the epican accompanying vocabulary lista short commentary to help with translationa concise review of the specific grammar covereda brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem, or featured myth. A free companion website, offering a wealth of additional resources, including worksheets, flashcards, additional notes for each chapter, and audio, is available at www.routledge.com/cw/albright. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level, Ovid's Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid's language and highly vivid descriptions, this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece, allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose, and offers opportunities for literary discussion."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Creation begins: (Met. 1.5-150); title: chapter 2 Creation continues: (Met. 1.5-150); title: chapter 3 Lycaon: (Met. 1.163-252); title: chapter 4 Deucalion and Pyrrha: (Met. 1.313-415); title: chapter 5 Apollo and Python: (Met. 1.416-451); title: chapter 6 Apollo and Daphne: (Met. 1.452-567); title: chapter 7 Phaethon: (Met. 2.1-400); title: chapter 8 Cadmus and the founding of Thebes: (Met. 3.1-137); title: chapter 9 Actaeon: (Met. 3.138-252); title: chapter 10 Semele: (Met. 3.253-315); title: chapter 11 Tiresias: (Met. 3.316-38); title: chapter 12 Bacchus and Pentheus: (Met. 3.511-733); title: chapter 13 Mars and Venus: (Met. 4.167-89); title: chapter 14 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: (Met. 4.274-388); title: chapter 15 The transformation of Cadmus: (Met. 4.563-603); title: chapter 16 Perseus and Atlas: (Met. 4.604-62); title: chapter 17 Perseus and Andromeda: (Met. 4.663-803); title: chapter 18 The rape of Proserpina: (Met. 5.346-571); title: chapter 19 Arachne and Minerva: (Met. 6.1-145); title: chapter 20 Niobe: (Met. 6.146-312); title: chapter 21 Tereus, Procne, and Philomela: (Met. 6.401-674); title: chapter 22 Boreas and Orithyia: (Met. 6.675-721); title: chapter 23 Medea's rejuvenation of Aeson: (Met. 7.159-293); title: chapter 24 Medea's punishment of Pelias: (Met. 7.294-349); title: chapter 25 Scylla and Nisus: (Met. 8.1-151); title: chapter 26 Pomona and Vertumnus: (Met. 14.623-771); title: chapter 27 Quirinus: (Met. 14.805-51); title: chapter 28 Cipus: (Met. 15.547-621); title: chapter 29 Aesculapius: (Met. 15.622-744); title: chapter 30 The apotheosis of Caesar: (Met. 15.745-870).