Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated with an introduction by Stephanie McCarter.

"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturn...

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Main Author: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D (Author)
Other Authors: McCarter, Stephanie (Translator)
Other title:Metamorphoses. English (McCarter)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2023.
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300 |a xxxvii, 567 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
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505 0 0 |t Preface --  |t Introduction /  |r by Stephanie McCarter --  |t A Note on the Translations --  |t Suggestions for Further Reading --  |t Metamorphoses:  |g Book One.  |t Proem ;  |t The Creation of the World ;  |t The Creation of Human Beings ;  |t The Ages of Humankind ;  |t The Gigantomachy ;  |t The Council of the Gods ;  |t Lycaön ;  |t The Flood ;  |t Deucalion and Pyrrha ;  |t The Python ;  |t Apollo Attempts to Rape Daphne ;  |t Jove Rapes and Transforms Io ;  |t Syrinx and Pan ;  |t Mercury Kills Argus ;  |t Io Regains Her Form ;  |t Phaethon --  |g Book Two.  |t Phaethon (continued);  |t Reactions to Phaethon's Death: The Heliades, Cycnus, and the Sun ;  |t Jove Rapes Callisto ;  |t The Raven and Coronis ;  |t The Crow and Nyctimene (the Owl) ;  |t The Raven and Coronis (continued) ;  |t Ocyrhoë Becomes Hippe ;  |t Battus ;  |t Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros ;  |t Jove Rapes Europa --  |g Book Three.  |t Cadmus ;  |t Diana and Actaeon ;  |t Jove and Semele ;  |t Tiresias ;  |t Echo and Narcissus ;  |t Pentheus ;  |t Acoetes' Crew Becomes Dolphins ;  |t Pentheus (continued) --  |g Book Four  |t The Daughters of Minyas ;  |t Pyramus and Thisbe ;  |t Venus and Mars ;  |t The Sun Rapes Leucothoë ;  |t Salmacis Rapes Hermaphroditus ;  |t The Daughters of Minyas Become Bats ;  |t Ino and Athamas ;  |t Cadmus and Harmonia Become Snakes ;  |t Perseus and Atlas ;  |t Perseus and Andromeda ;  |t Perseus and Medusa --  |g Book Five.  |t The Battle for Andromeda ;  |t Perseus, Proetus, and Polydectes ;  |t Minerva and the Muses ;  |t Pyreneus Tries to Rape the Muses ;  |t The Pierides Challenge the Muses ;  |t Pluto Kidnaps and Rapes Proserpina ;  |t Alpheus Tries to Rape Arethusa ;  |t Triptolemus ;  |t The Pierides Become Magpies --  |g Book Six.  |t Arachne ;  |t Niobe ;  |t Lycian Rustics Become Frogs ;  |t Apollo Flays Marsyas ;  |t Pelops Mourns for Niobe ;  |t Tereus Rapes Philomela ;  |t Boreas Rapes Orithyia --  |g Book Seven.  |t Medea and Jason ;  |t Medea and Aeson ;  |t Medea and Pelias ;  |t Medea's Flight ;  |t Theseus ;  |t Minos ;  |t The Arrival of Cephalus in Aegina ;  |t The Plague at Aegina ;  |t Cephalus and Procris --  |g Book Eight.  |t Scylla and Minos ;  |t The Labyrinth ;  |t Daedalus and Icarus ;  |t Daedalus and Perdix ;  |t The Calydonian Boar Hunt ;  |t Althaea and Meleager ;  |t Acheloüs ;  |t The Echinades ;  |t Acheloüs Rapes Perimele ;  |t Baucis and Philemon ;  |t Erysichthon and His Daughter Mestra --  |g Book Nine.  |t Acheloüs and Hercules ;  |t Hercules, Deianira, and the Centaur Nessus ;  |t The Death of Hercules ;  |t Hercules and Lichas ;  |t The Deification of Hercules ;  |t Alcmena and the Birth of Hercules ;  |t Dryope ;  |t Iolaüs and the Prophecy of Themis ;  |t Byblis and Caunus ;  |t Iphis and Ianthe --  |g Book Ten.  |t Orpheus and Eurydice ;  |t Orpheus Charms the Trees ;  |t Cyparissus ;  |t The Songs of Orpheus ;  |t Jove Rapes Ganymede ;  |t Apollo and Hyacinthus ;  |t The Cerastae and the Daughters of Propoetus ;  |t Pygmalion and the Ivory Statue ;  |t Myrrha and Cinyras ;  |t Venus and Adonis ;  |t Atalanta and Hippomenes ;  |t The Death of Adonis --  |g Book Eleven.  |t The Death of Orpheus ;  |t Punishment of the Maenads ;  |t Midas ;  |t The Foundation of Troy ;  |t Peleus Rapes Thetis ;  |t Peleus at the Court of Ceÿx ;  |t Daedalion and Chione ;  |t Psamathe's Wolf ;  |t Ceÿx and Alcyone ;  |t The Storm at Sea ;  |t The House of Sleep ;  |t Aesacus and Hesperia --  |g Book Twelve.  |t The Sacrifice of Iphigenia ;  |t The House of Rumor ;  |t Achilles and Cycnus ;  |t Nestor's Tales ;  |t Neptune Rapes Caenis/Caeneus ;  |t The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs ;  |t Cyllarus and Hylonome ;  |t Caeneus ;  |t Hercules and Periclymenus ;  |t The Death of Achilles --  |t Book Thirteen.  |t Ajax and Ulysses Contend for Achilles' Armor ;  |t The Fall of Troy ;  |t The Sacrifice of Polyxena ;  |t Hecuba and Polymestor ;  |t Aurora and Memnon ;  |t Aeneas' Travels ;  |t Anius and His Daughters ;  |t The Daughters of Orion ;  |t Aeneas' Travels Resumed ;  |t Galatea, Acis, and Polyphemus ;  |t Scylla and Glaucus --  |g Book Fourteen.  |t Glaucus, Scylla and Circe ;  |t The Travels of Aeneas Resumed ;  |t The Sibyl and Apollo ;  |t Macareus and Achaemenides Swap Tales ;  |t Achaemenides' Tale: The Cyclops ;  |t Macareus' Tale (I): Circe and Odysseus' Men ;  |t Macareus' Tale (II): Circe, Picus, and Canens ;  |t Aeneas' Wars in Latium ;  |t Diomedes' Men Become Birds ;  |t The Apulian Shepherd ;  |t Aeneas' Ships Become Sea Nymphs ;  |t The Defeat of Turnus ;  |t Ardea Transforms into a Heron ;  |t The Deification of Aeneas ;  |t The Alban Kings ;  |t Pomona and Vertumnus ;  |t Iphis and Anaxarete ;  |t Pomona and Vertumnus (continued) ;  |t War with the Sabines ;  |t The Deification of Romulus ;  |t The Deification of Hersilia --  |g Book Fiften.  |t Numa ;  |t Myscelos and the Founding of Croton ;  |t Pythagoras ;  |t Egeria and Hippolytus/Virbius ;  |t Cipus ;  |t Asclepius ;  |t The Deification of Julius Caesar ;  |t Epilogue. 
520 |a "The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics. Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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