By Ovid
ISBN-10: 0253012414
ISBN-13: 9780253012418
The 1st and nonetheless the simplest smooth verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries’ model of Ovid’s masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.
Everyone will get pleasure from this primary sleek translation via an American poet of Ovid’s nice paintings, the most important treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially prompted the minds of fellows. during this vigorous rendering there are not any inventory props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, yet genuine nutrients at the desk and occasionally genuine blood at the ground.
Not purely is Ovid’s Metamorphoses a suite of all of the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, however the booklet offers even as a sequence of affection poems—about the loves of fellows, girls, and the gods. There also are poems of hate, to offer the right kind shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer’s love for this earth, its humans, its phenomena.
Using ten-beat, unrhymed traces in his translation, Rolfe Humphries exhibits a distinct kinship for Ovid’s rapid and colloquial language and Humphries’ entire poetic demeanour is in music with the wit and class of the Roman poet.
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When the Nile river Floods and recedes and the mud is warmed by sunshine, IS 16 BOOK ONE lines 42;-454 Men, turning over the earth, find living things, And some not living, but nearly so, imperfect, On the verge of life, and often the same substance Is part alive, part only clay. When moisture Unites with heat, life is conceived; all things Come from this union. Fire may fight with water, But heat and moisture generate all things, Their discord being productive. So when earth, After that flood, still muddy, took the heat, Felt the warm fire of sunlight, she conceived, Brought forth, after their fashion, all the creatures, Some old, some strange and monstrous.
She would fear Wild beasts, herself a beast, and hide from bears Forgetting she was one; she feared the wolves Though her own father, once the man Lycaon, Roamed with the wolf-pack now. And the boy Arcas Lycaon's grandson, lived through fifteen years And never knew his mother. He was hunting One day, in Arcady, seeking the game 43 44 BOOK TWO lines 498-5Z6 In haunts he knew they chose. He had spread his nets And came upon his mother. She stood still Looking at him, and almost seemed to know him, And he shrank back at those unmoving eyes Forever upon him.
Apollo, with pride and glory still upon him Over the Python slain, saw Cupid bending APOLLO AND DAPHNE His tight-strung little bow. "0 silly youngster," He said, "What are you doing with such weapons? Those are for grown-ups! The bow is for my shoulders; I never fail in wounding beast or mortal, And not so long ago I slew the Python With countless darts; his bloated body covered Acre on endless acre, and I slew him! The torch, my boy, is enough for you to play with, To get the love-fires burning.
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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