Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses | Ovid
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 fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
monkeygirlsmama
post image

Totally loving my new Loch Ness Monster bookmark my oldest gave me for Christmas. 💓📚

Aims42 It‘s so cute!! 😍 10mo
monkeygirlsmama @Aims42 Isn't it though?! I love it! (edited) 10mo
monkeygirlsmama Sadly I haven't been in the right mood for deep Greek poetry and have, therefore, been taking my sweet time with this one. This wouldn't ordinarily be a problem, but apparently it's due back at the library already and there's someone else anxious for its return. As I don't want to be THAT person, you know the one that holds up the queue, I guess it will have to go back onto my TBR list so I can return it tonight. Until next time, beautiful book! 9mo
22 likes3 comments
blurb
monkeygirlsmama
post image

Stopped by the library to pick up a book my daughter had on hold, and ended up being distracted by the NEW ARRIVALS shelf. Ended up grabbing these two to dive into. I'd be lying if I didn't say I picked the Ovid purely because of this stupid, amazing, beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition cover! (And the blurb for the other one sounded way too trippy to pass up.)

#stacks

22 likes1 stack add
review
Super_Jane
post image
Pickpick

4.25/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 #greekmythology #romanmythology #mythology

blurb
RowReads1
post image
blurb
CounterfeitNickel
post image

Pippin‘s looking at me like I‘m Actaeon. #pippin #dogsoflitsy

blurb
Rehesina
post image

I'm still obsessed with the trojan war. I'm slowly making my way through this to get to there! Metamorphoses is pretty good though and some of these myths are new to me!

For some reason I've also decided to lowkey crush on Antilochus; would any happen to know of any media or books that feature him?

review
Palimpsest
post image
Pickpick

I was surprised how approachable this narrative poem was and I loved it! My copy was translated closer to Ovid‘s dactylic hexameter instead of iambic pent. I was around 10 when I was first introduced to myths and I remember being on a big mythology kick. A lot of these stories were revived from my memory as I read them and others were new and surprising. Happy I‘ve finally read this classic that carries over to other lit and contemporary films.

vivastory One of my favorite poems of all time. Also, I keep waiting for Penguin to release a collection of Coralie Bickford Smith's designs! 5y
Palimpsest @vivastory I imagine those book designs would be beautiful! Yes, I have a lot of thoughts about Metamorphoses, more than I could include in this short review. I loved it too. 5y
46 likes2 comments
blurb
Demeter2112
post image

Finally getting a chance to reread one of my favorite classics 🖤

20 likes1 stack add
review
Lcsmcat
post image
Pickpick

There were more than 6 metamorphoses in this classic, but they fell into broad groups. People turned into: water, trees, flowers, rocks, gods/stars, mammals (usually cattle.) Women being chased by would-be rapists leaned towards the tree and water; men towards flowers and gods. Ovid has a different take on characters than Homer & some other sources, and continues through Augustus. Knowing both the Greek & Roman names would help you 👇🏻

Lcsmcat 👆🏻understand, but even if this is your first exposure to these stories you can get the gist of the action. 5y
46 likes1 comment
quote
Lcsmcat
post image

“Now he is ash, and little if anything remains of Achilles, once so mighty, now hardly enough to fill an urn.”
The last several dozen pages have been nothing but killing. I‘m kind of glad to see the end of at least one warrior.

quote
Lcsmcat
post image

“Then two brothers fell at the hands of Phineus. They were Broteas and Ammon, the famous boxers, who would have been able to overcome anything, if boxing gloves were able to overcome swords.”

40 likes1 stack add
blurb
Lcsmcat
post image

One of the major works oboists learn is Benjamin Britten‘s Six Metamorphoses After Ovid. The movements are Pan, Phaeton, Niobe, Bacchus, Narcissus, & Arethusa. Since learning it in the mid 80s I‘ve thought I should read the book, but never got around to it. Until now. So far none of the 6 have appeared. Here‘s a link if you want to hear the piece. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywSnArfKxmk

Palimpsest This is on my to read list this year as I‘ve wanted to read it for a long time. So many other works reference it. 5y
Lcsmcat @Palimpsest Yes! And lots of the stories are known from other cultural references, but I want to see what Ovid makes of them. 5y
40 likes2 comments
review
Centique
post image
Pickpick

Ovid and I are finally finished with each other - between this and Silence of the Girls I feel like I‘ve been vacationing in Ancient Greece 😍 (and a little bit of Rome, yes Ovid, we see you sucking up to Augustus there at the end 😂)
If you like Greek mythology this is actually not a hard read. Although it‘s an epic poem, it was easy to follow and the adventures and tragedies had recognisable beginnings, middles and ends. ⬇️

Centique Now I‘m suitably steeped in mythology I just need Stephen Fry to come in at the library for me. Well, his book, I wish it was the ACTUAL Stephen Fry... 5y
Ruthiella That would be great if Stephen could come over for tea or a drink and chat about Greek and Roman ancient literature!🤪 5y
Centique @Ruthiella man that would be a dream come true! 5y
74 likes1 stack add3 comments
quote
GatheringBooks
Metamorphosis | Ovid, David Raeburn
post image
53 likes1 stack add
blurb
Centique
post image

#chunksteralert

Halfway through this chunkster - although as it‘s an epic poem the book size is deceiving - there‘s not as many words per page as a novel. You‘ve done me a favour Ovid, I appreciate how quickly and simply you tell each myth, but my lord there is a lot of rape and violence in Greek mythology. 😬 Still I‘m hoping I‘ll remember more of my minor gods and goddesses after this 🤞

82 likes2 stack adds
review
EmilieGR
Pickpick

LOVE these

quote
Lcsmcat
post image

“God himself helps those who dare.” #audacity #quotsymay19 @TK-421

gradcat Very nice! 🙌♥️👍 6y
39 likes1 comment
blurb
Lcsmcat
post image
vkois88 Beautiful cover! 6y
63 likes1 comment
blurb
Lcsmcat
post image

The Metamorphoses of Ovid are all about #transformation as the quote on the cover attests. #catchingup #150PnPCoverParty @CrowCAH @LeahBergen

MatchlessMarie I‘m reading this one for #LitsyClassics I had six parts in the Mary Zimmerman theater adaptation in high school which was a lot of fun. 🎭 7y
Lcsmcat @MatchlessMarie Fun! I‘m most familiar with the six stories Benjamin Britten used in his work for solo oboe, (Six Metamorphoses After Ovid) because I majored in oboe for my undergrad degree. But this is on my TBR for classics too. 7y
CrowCAH Ah very good quote! 7y
LeahBergen I did a bunch of Classics courses in university and this was one of my faves. 😍 7y
43 likes2 stack adds4 comments
blurb
TheBookselvesOfMillie
post image

Thought I would share my battered copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, it has colour coded tabs in it for easy access to the bits I need for my masters thesis. 📖 I am only kind of okay with breaking the spines and writing in etc. in school/uni books, is that odd?? #Ovid #Classics #Masters #Metamorphoses #Chaos #Rome

quietlycuriouskate I've still got my Latin edition from twenty years ago: I couldn't persuade myself to part with it. 7y
TheBookselvesOfMillie @River_Voice that is amazing! I don't think I will ever part with any of mine 7y
mariaku21 My copy was passed down by my older siblings so there's notes all over it. It's great to see their opinions in different pens and handwriting. 7y
TheBookselvesOfMillie @mariaku21 that is so nice to see all their thoughts! I don't think any of my scribbles would make sense! I have studied this book twice and there are a couple of pages I wrote in the first time round and I haven't got much clue as to what I meant 😂😂 it was years ago! (edited) 7y
mariaku21 @TheBookselvesOfMillie I can't read some of their notations, my older brother has atrocious handwriting. One sister wrote everything in shorthand and the other wrote in pencil and some of it faded. 7y
20 likes2 stack adds5 comments
review
Sophoclessweetheart
post image
Pickpick

3.5/5 star I really loved it! But I feel like it's not entirely as amazing as others. The whole book is just full of Magic and charm and mischievous gods and some parts I loved much more than others. Overall, I think way more people should read this! #ovid #epicreads #booklover #bookblogger #bibliophile #bookstagram #classicist #classics #metamorphoses #met_createchange

blurb
Sophoclessweetheart
post image

Bedtime reading consists of Ovid and The Secret History. 🌻 What're you reading right now? #ovid #donnatartt #classicist #epicreads #booklover #bookblogger #bibliophile #books #metamorphoses

review
jenniferw88
Panpan

1 ⭐. I would have bailed on this one if it hadn't been letter O for #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia

Andrea4 Oh how sad! I love the Metamorphoses! But I am biased... 7y
AshHisson It might be the translation. I know with The Odyssey I hated one translation but loved another. 7y
63 likes2 comments
blurb
Sophoclessweetheart
post image

I'm reading and studying Ovid's Metamorphoses alongside reading The Clocks with @BookishBrooklyn 💁🏼 I'm three books in and it's pretty incredible. I'm going to have ALOT of fun studying this next year 🖤#Ovid #classicist #classics #booklover #epicreads #bibliophile

20 likes1 stack add
quote
Jess_Read_This
post image

"Iris, in her thousand hues enrobed traced through the sky her arching bow . . . Iris entered, and the bright sudden radiance of her robe lit up the hallowed place . . . Iris departed, and fled away back o'er the arching rainbow as she came."

?I had no idea this color iris was in my garden! I love when Mother Nature surprises this erstwhile gardener... ?

#Iris #GreenThumbWannabe #MotherNature #MyBackyard #Surprise

Hobbinol 😍😍😍🌈🌸❗️ 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Gorgeous peach color! 7y
britt_brooke My favorite flower. Gorgeous! 7y
See All 7 Comments
hermyknee 💕 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty!!! 7y
Jess_Read_This @Hobbinol @BarbaraTheBibliophage @britt_brooke @hermyknee @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you!! ☺️ It was a total surprise flower this morning as it wasn't blooming yesterday. 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Jess_Read_This I love those surprises!! 🌸💕 7y
61 likes7 comments
blurb
BooksForYears
post image

#AprilBookShowers Day 3 - Mythology

Although my reading of them has waned in recent years, I do enjoy reading ancient myths. It's fascinating to see what parts of them have influenced modern cultures.

LauraAndTaraAndBooks 😍 oh, the cover of that Homer 😍 8y
BooksForYears @LauraAndTaraAndBooks I know, right! Blue foiling and rippling deity muscles! 8y
RealLifeReading Beautiful book! 8y
erzascarletbookgasm Beautiful edition! 8y
LeahBergen Lovely! 💗 8y
138 likes4 stack adds5 comments
quote
eclecticreading
post image

This made me chuckle more than it ought to have the other day: someone clearly didn't like the bard's songs 😅😨😨😨

review
AshleyHoss820
post image
Mehso-so

I read this 4 years ago and I'm clearly going to have to re-read it. Maybe find a better translation. It was such a slog to read that I retained almost nothing. I'll have to try again. Unfortunately, I have had a few like this on the 1,001 List. 2/1,001 #1001Books

2 likes1 stack add
blurb
ScorpioBookDreams
post image

It's very rare that I #dnf a book as I'm too stubborn to give up. But I lost this book whilst in the middle of reading it so never finished! Luckily, I found it the other week so can finally get around to finishing it. #readjanuary

Smangela I'm the same way. I think it's cool that other people bail on books but every time I see it as a bookish resolution it gives me stress haha 😂 8y
ScorpioBookDreams @Smangela I know! 😂😂 8y
vivastory Glad you're going to finish. Love "Metamorphoses." I also recommended Ted Hughes' "Tales from Ovid" & the anthology "After Ovid" (which is a collection of versions by contemporary poets of several episodes from Metamorphoses) @ScorpioBookDreams 8y
See All 8 Comments
ScorpioBookDreams @vivastory thanks for the recommendation! 8y
[DELETED] 1409720085 Same. Like I will not give up no matter how much I hate a book. 8y
LeahBergen I loved this one (I read it in a Classics course in university). 8y
ScorpioBookDreams @LeahBergen I remember enjoying it before I lost it! 8y
ScorpioBookDreams @emilydecato I can't decide if it's a vice or virtue!! 8y
93 likes1 stack add8 comments
blurb
outis
post image

Long, long ago in a school far, far away.... For some reason #orangecovers appear to be beloved by many publishers of classical texts, but I chose the Reclam series because I love their fit-in-your-palm-or-pocket size. #photoadaynov16

quote
Seshat

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit." (Everything changes, nothing perishes)

16 likes1 stack add
quote
GoneFishing

As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.

Laalaleighh Wow. I need to read me some Ovid. 8y
37 likes5 stack adds1 comment
quote
Lindy
post image

"Contented with food that grew without cultivation, they collected mountain strawberries and the fruit of the strawberry tree, wild cherries, blackberries clinging to the tough brambles, and acorns fallen from Jupiter‘s spreading oak-tree."

Lindy Walking through forests in Portugal, I've come across strawberry trees, many oaks, and brambles tumbling with ripe blackberries. 8y
MrBook Awesome! 8y
Dragon Were the berries sweet? They look tasty 😋 8y
See All 7 Comments
Lindy @dragon Yes! Sweet and juicy in the shadier areas. In full sun, they were partly dried, raisin-like, with a concentrated sweetness. 8y
BethFishReads Our blackberries didn't do very well this year 8y
Lindy @BethFishReads There's always next year; gardeners are experts in hoping. 😉 8y
BethFishReads We are! 8y
33 likes7 comments
blurb
rachelm
post image

#somethingforsept #septphotochallenge #faveclassics

My English major soul rejoices-- but also not. Dead white men are typical of the classics, but one thing I love about these classics is the way that everyone else has had their shot to tell and retell them.

MrBook I've got all of these 😁👍🏻👏🏻 8y
41 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
Marcusforelius

#poorrichards best book store in Colorado Springs

review
Classic_Wirginia
Mehso-so

I love busting out some Greek Mythology knowledge at bars and first dates, or really anywhere you can fit it in. People knees to know that Clash Of The Titans is not accurate according to Ovid!!! Metamorphoses is a good stepping stone, a little dry, but not horrible.