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Results for 'ovid'
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No Friend to This House
A defiantly feminist retelling of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind.
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The Fall of Icarus
Tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe.
€ 5,50 -
Metamorfosen
Ovidius en de kunstenMETAMORFOSEN Ovidius en de kunsten De Metamorfosen van de Romeinse dichter Ovidius, een van de belangrijkste werken uit de klassieke oudheid, werd in de 17de eeuw een ‘Bijbel voor kunstenaars’ genoemd. Het meeslepende epos verweeft verhalen over chaos en kosmos, ontmoetingen tussen goden, mensen en de natuur, en talrijke daaruit voortvloeiende gedaantewisselingen. Al eeuwen vinden kunstenaars inspiratie in deze fantasierijke verhalen over passie, jaloezie, list en bedrog van goden, helden en gewone stervelingen. Hun interpretaties werden zowel in marmer en verf als in bewegend beeld uitgevoerd. Deze publicatie toont de enorme invloed van Ovidius op de beeldende kunst, van de oudheid tot vandaag. Sculpturen van Cellini, Bernini, Rodin en Bourgeois staan naast schilderijen van Titiaan, Correggio, Caravaggio, Arcimboldo en Rubens. Ovidius’ mythen gaan over universeel menselijke gevoelens en spreken daarom nog altijd onverminderd tot onze verbeelding. Dit rijk ge.llustreerde boek, met essays van Francesca Cappelletti, Claudia Cieri Via, Bart Ramakers, Frits Scholten en Lucia Simonato, is daarvan het levende bewijs.
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Metamorphoses
Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation.
€ 13,95 -
The Odyssey
Deals with literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. This title presents you with the author's best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War.
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No Friend to This House
A defiantly feminist retelling of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind.
€ 23,99 -
Gedaantewisselingen
MetamorfosenOvidius’ ingenieuze keten van verhalen over wonderbaarlijke gedaantewisselingen wordt algemeen beschouwd als een van de meest invloedrijke werken uit de Westerse literatuur. Een dergelijk meesterwerk verdient het om eens in de zoveel jaren opnieuw te worden vertaald; Gedaantewisselingen is na tweeduizend jaar is nog steeds opmerkelijk levendig en uiterst leesbaar. Ovidius’ meeslepende gedicht inspireerde talloze schrijvers, dichters en kunstenaars. Op briljante wijze toont hij ons de aangrijpende gevolgen van liefde, lust, haat, jaloezie, vooroordeel, list en leugen in een wereld vol dramatische ontmoetingen tussen goden en stervelingen. Gedaantewisselingen voert de lezer van de oerchaos naar Ovidius’ eigen tijd en biedt daarmee ook een authentieke inleiding op de klassieke mythologie. Naast de elegante, nieuwe vertaling van latinist Piet Schrijvers bevat dit boek ook de oorspronkelijke Latijnse tekst en een uitgebreide inleiding van de hand van de vertaler. Piet Schrijvers (1939) is emeritus hoogleraar Latijnse taal- en letterkunde (Leiden). Schrijvers is bekend als vertaler van Latijnse poëzie. Hij vertaalde onder meer Horatius (Verzamelde gedichten), Vergilius (Aeneas, Georgica) en Lucretius (De natuur van de dingen). Voor die laatste ontving hij in 2011 de Martinus Nijhoff Vertaal Prijs. Bij Primavera Pers verscheen ook zijn vertaling van Ovidius’ Kalendergedichten.
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Metamorphoses
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)“The true brilliance, that is, the true reading, the accessibility, of McCarter’s tapestry lies in her use of poetic form.(…) Throughout, McCarter produces gorgeous basso continuo undertones juxtaposed against sharp and high-pitched rhymes. Such formal elements of the translation ultimately represent McCarter’s interpretation of Metamorphoses and the art of translation itself—that humble human craft that has the capacity to stand against and despite the will of gods, power, and time. McCarter has produced her own masterpiece that ‘Jove’s wrath cannot / destroy, nor flame, nor steel, nor gnawing time.’ ‘My name,’ she writes, ‘can’t be erased.’” —Anna Deeny Morales, 2023 American Poets Prize citation for The Academy of American Poets“The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year was Stephanie McCarter's marvellous new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fresh, readable, vivid iambic pentameter. McCarter captures Ovid's wit and cleverness, making us laugh at the escapades of abusive, lust-crazed, arrogant gods and hapless, also lust-crazed and arrogant mortals. But she also brilliantly evokes Ovid's more serious sides, including his attentiveness to power and the magical vivacity of the natural world. Her wonderful handling of the metrical poetic form is a fitting match for Ovid's artful, fluent Latin verse.”—Emily Wilson, The New Statesman“McCarter confronts the tricky issues associated with both the poet and his epic not only in her forthright introduction but in the translation itself, where, like an art restorer removing decades of browned varnish from an Old Master, she strips away a number of inaccuracies and embellishments that have accreted in translations over the decades and centuries, obscuring the sense of certain passages, particularly those portraying women and sexual violence… McCarter’s translation reproduces Ovid’s speed and clarity. Even better, she is alert to many of the sparkling verbal effects for which the poet was famous in his own time… If you didn’t know she was writing about the concerns of someone who died twenty centuries ago, you’d think her subject was still alive.”—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker“McCarter adroitly captures Ovid’s glittering darkness. There is horror here but there is also so much wonder and delight, all conveyed in nimble, fresh language.” —Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire“The Metamorphoses has it all: sex, death, love, violence, gods, mortals, monsters, nymphs, all the great forces, human and natural. With this vital new translation, Stephanie McCarter has not only updated Ovid's epic of transformation for the modern ear and era --- she's done something far more powerful. She's paid rigorous attention to the language of the original and brought to us its ferocity, its sensuality, its beauty, its wit, showing us how we are changed, by time, by violence, by love, by stories, and especially by power. Here is Ovid, in McCarter's masterful hands, refreshed, renewed, and pulsing with life.” —Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung“Stephanie McCarter’s gorgeous verse translation of the Metamorphoses is ground-breaking not just in its refreshingly accessible approach to Ovid’s syntax and formal devices but for how she reframes the controversial subjects that have made Ovid, and Ovidian scholarship, so fraught for contemporary readers. McCarter’s translation understands that the Metamorphoses is a complex study of power and desire, and the dehumanizing ways that power asserts itself through and on a variety of bodies. McCarter’s deft, musical, and forthright translation returns much needed nuance to Ovid’s tropes of violence and change, demonstrating to a new generation of readers how our identities are always in flux, while reminding us all of the Metamorphoses’ enduring relevance.” —Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale"A graceful and fluid and deeply meaningful translation. Compared to the other translations of the Metamorphoses on which I’ve relied in the past, it’s as though this is of an entirely different book. The reader follows the lines with genuine emotion. And so do worlds open up—" —Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University "Stephanie McCarter’s translation offers an attractive alternative to the finest versions to appear in recent decades, while the abundance of her introductory and explanatory material gives her work a clear advantage over those predecessors. As a vehicle for serious engagement with Ovid’s poem in English, McCarter has no rival." – Richard Tarrant, Harvard University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
€ 23,95 -
Metamorphosen
Niets blijft en niets vergaat – dat is de grondgedachte achter dit imposante gedicht. De dichter neemt ons mee vanaf de eerste chaos tot en met de opkomst van keizer Augustus. Wonderbaarlijke verhalen schotelt hij ons voor: over de zonnewagen, over Narcissus en Echo, Daedalus en Icarus en nog veel meer wereldberoemd antieke personages. Dit magnum opus van Ovidius was en is van invloed op het werk van talloze kunstenaars, schrijvers en musici. Het is tijdloos en uniek: één lange, betoverende reeks gedaanteverwisselingen.
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The Far Edges of the Known World
A New History of the Ancient PastWhat was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.
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The Aeneid
"A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow." -The New York Times Book Review (front page review) "Fagles's new version of Virgil's epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem's Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil's distinctive voice." -The New Yorker "Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid." -J. M. Coetzee
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The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
What were the twelve labors of Herakles? Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold? What was the name of the guard-dog of the Underworld? Which two-faced Roman god gave his name to the month January? What is the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx? This book answers these questions.
€ 26,50