Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a freshunderstanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

Historical Sketch

ix

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Introduction

xiii

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Translator's Note

xxx

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Select Bibliography

xxxix

METAMORPHOSES

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BOOK I The Creation--The Ages of Mankind--The Flood -Deucalion and Pyrrha--Apollo and Daphne--Io--Phaethon

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BOOK II Phaethon (cont.)--Callisto--The Raven and the Crow--Ocyrhoe-Mercury and Battus--The Envy of Aglauros--Jupiter and Europa

25

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BOOK III Cadmus--Diana and Actaeon--Semele and the Birth of Bacchus Tiresias--Narcissus and Echo--Pentheus and Bacchus

51

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BOOK IV The Daughters of Minyas-Pyramus and Thisbe--The Sun in Love--Salmacis and Hermaphroditus--The Daughters of Minyas Transformed--Athamas and Ino-The Transformation of Cadmus--Perseus and Andromeda

74

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BOOK V Perseus' Fight in the Palace of Cepheus--Minerva Meets the Muses on Helicon--The Rape of Proserpine--Arethusa--Triptolemus

99

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BOOK VI Arachne--Niobe--The Lycian Peasants--Marsyas--Pelops--Tereus, Procne, and Philomela--Boreas and Orithyia

121

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BOOK VII Medea and Jason--Medea and Aeson--Medea and Pelias: her Flight--Theseus--Minos, Aeacus, the Plague at Aegina, the Myrmidons--Cephalus and Procris

144

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BOOK VIII Scylla and Minos--The Minotaur--Daedalus and Icarus--Perdix--Meleager and the Calydonian Boar--Althaea and Meleager--Achelous and the Nymphs--Philemon and Baucis--Erysichthon and his Daughter

171

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BOOK IX Achelous and Hercules--Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira--The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules--The Birth of Hercules--Dryope--Iolaus and the Sons of Callirhoe--Byblis--Iphis and Ianthe

199

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BOOK X Orpheus and Eurydice--Cyparissus--Ganymede--Hyacinth--Pygmalion--Myrrha--Venus and Adonis--Atalanta

225

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BOOK XI The Death of Orpheus--Midas--First Foundation and Destruction of Troy--Peleus and Thetis--Daedalion--The Cattle of Peleus--Ceyx and Alcyone--Aesacus

249

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BOOK XII The Expedition against Troy--Achilles and Cycnus--Caenis--The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs--Nestor and Hercules--The Death of Achilles

274

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BOOK XIII Ajax and Ulysses and the Arms of Achilles--The Fall of Troy--Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus--Memnon--The Pilgrimage of Aeneas--Acis and Galatea--Scylla and Glaucus

294

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BOOK XIV Scylla and Glaucus (cont.)--The Pilgrimage of Aeneas (cont.)--The Island of Circe--Picus and Canens--The Triumph and Apotheosis of Aeneas--Pomona and Vertumnus--Legends of Early Rome; The Apotheosis of Romulus

325

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BOOK XV Numa and the Foundation of Crotona--The Doctrines of Pythagoras--The Death of Numa--Hippolytus--Cipus--Aesculapius--The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar--Epilogue

352

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Explanatory Notes

381

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Glossary and Index of Names

467

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