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Repeat performances : Ovidian repetition and the Metamorphoses
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ISBN: 9780299307509 0299307506 9780299307530 0299307530 Year: 2016 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press,


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Ovid on cosmetics : Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts
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ISBN: 9781472506740 147250674X 9781472507495 1472507495 9781472514424 1472514424 9781472506573 147250657X 9781474218696 1474218695 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy that showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concept of cultus, the poem presents five practical recipes for treatments for Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit and vivacity and provides an important insight into Roman social mores and day-to-day activities. The first full study in English devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an introduction that situates the poem within its literary heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and attitudes to female beauty in Roman society. The Latin text is presented on parallel p. alongside a new translation, and all Latin words and phrases are translated for the non-specialist reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual phrases still further. Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates this witty, subversive yet significant poem. Its attention to the technicalities of cosmeceuticals and cosmetics, including detailed analyses of individual ingredients and the effects of specific creams and makeup, make this work a significant contribution to the beauty industry in antiquity."--


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Ovid, Amores (Book 1)
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ISBN: 9781783741649 9781783741656 1783741643 1783741651 9781783741663 178374166X 1783741627 9781783741625 9781783741632 9781783741625 2821881665 1783741635 Year: 2016 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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"From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid's Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun writing his Amores as early as 25 BC. Although influenced by poets such as Catullus, Ovid demonstrates a much greater awareness of the funny side of love than any of his predecessors. The Amores is a collection of romantic poems centered on the poet's own complicated love life: he is involved with a woman, Corinna, who is sometimes unobtainable, sometimes compliant, and often difficult and domineering. Whether as a literary trope, or perhaps merely as a human response to the problems of love in the real world, the principal focus of these poems is the poet himself, and his failures, foolishness, and delusions. By the time he was in his forties, Ovid was Rome's most important living poet; his Metamorphoses, a kaleidoscopic epic poem about love and hatred among the gods and mortals, is one of the most admired and influential books of all time. In AD 8, Ovid was exiled by Augustus to Romania, for reasons that remain obscure. He died there in AD 17. The Amores were originally published in five books, but reissued around 1 AD in their current three-book form. This edition of the first book of the collection contains the complete Latin text of Book 1, along with commentary, notes and full vocabulary. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book will provide an invaluable aid to students of Latin and general readers alike. This book contain embedded audio files of the original text read aloud by Aleksandra Szypowska." -- publisher's website.


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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, glossary of terms, vocabulary aid and study questions
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ISBN: 1783740833 1783740825 1783740841 2821884044 178374085X 9781783740840 9781783740857 9781783740864 1783740868 9781783740833 9781783740826 Year: 2016 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb. The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions. This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.


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"Ovide veut parler" : les négociations de Clément Marot traducteur
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ISBN: 9782600047098 2600047093 9782600147095 9782600347099 Year: 2016 Volume: 134 Publisher: Genève Librairie Droz

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Première version française en vers d’un des plus importants textes latins par l’un des plus grands poètes français du premier XVIe siècle, le Premier Livre de la Metamorphose de Clément Marot pose la triple question des origines, des techniques et de la valeur de la traduction littéraire en France. Le geste de Marot au service d’Ovide relève d’une déontologie qui pourrait être celle d’un traducteur d’aujourd’hui, mais se distingue aussi bien des pratiques antérieures (Ovide moralisé) que des réalisations postérieures (Amyot, Belles infidèles). Grâce à l’exploitation d’une version manuscrite éditée pour la première fois et disponible en ligne, l’étude systématique du texte met en évidence d’importantes variations dans les manières adoptées par Marot et révèle leur cohérence profonde. La critique littéraire a su depuis longtemps décrire des versions «belles, parce qu’infidèles». Il importe donc tout particulièrement de rendre justice à une traduction «belle, parce qu’aussi peu infidèle que possible».

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