The Metamorphoses of Ovid (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

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The Metamorphoses

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Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. This edition has really come a long way. The text has been translated into a more modern voice, making it much more user friendly and fun to read. And its written in verse form as is should be. Theres also an excellent introduction to the entire work as well as introductions to each individual book, providing insights and background information. The notes in the back of the book are very comprehensive and helpful, adding greatly to your understanding of the work.

On top of all that, theres a glossary of the characters in the back which not only tells you who they are, but where they are featured in the epic.

Needless to say, this edition is chock full of stuff to please both casual readers of the work and scholars. Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality.

In conjuring up a likeness, the mental image of the simile enters a dialectic of appearances in a visually complex and treacherous universe. Original and subtle close readings of episodes in the poem, from Narcissus to Adonis, from Diana's blush to the freeform dreams in the House of Sleep, trace the simile's potential for exploiting indeterminacy and immateriality.

In its protean permutations the simile touches on the most profound issues of the poem - the nature of humanity and divinity and the essence of poetic creation. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics.

The work explores the constructed author and complements recent criticism focusing on the reader in the text. A generation earlier, a high culture of poets and patrons had flourished, giving rise to the great works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius, and Tibullus. But, in this compelling new reading of the Metamorphoses in its social and political context, Patricia Johnson demonstrates that Ovid was writing in an artistic atmosphere succumbing to a stranglehold of implicit censorship that culminated in his exile from Rome in 8 AD.

Johnson shows that, in the poem, danger permeates acts of artistic creation. She reveals that in the poem, as in late Augustan Rome, the overriding criterion. A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid?