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The Metamorphoses de Ovid

The Metamorphoses

Autor Ovid Traducere de Allen Mandelbaum
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2013

În Roma de la începutul mileniului, Ovid a creat o lume în care singura constantă este schimbarea, un spațiu mitic unde granițele dintre uman, divin și vegetal sunt fluide. Alegerea acestui cadru temporal și spiritual nu este întâmplătoare; într-o epocă a consolidării puterii imperiale, poemul devine o cronică a modului în care autoritatea modelează și, adesea, fragmentează identitatea. Observăm în această nouă ediție a The Metamorphoses, semnată de Stephanie McCarter, o schimbare de paradigmă necesară: traducerea nu mai ascunde brutalitatea sub metafore galante, ci redă cu precizie impactul puterii asupra celor vulnerabili.

Suntem de părere că forța narativă a lui Alessandro Barchiesi combinată cu sensibilitatea interpretativă a unor autori precum Lee Fratantuono se regăsește aici, dar cu un glas propriu, marcat de o onestitate tăioasă. Spre deosebire de The Love Poems, unde ironia viza jocurile seducției, sau de The Fall of Icarus, unde accentul cădea pe hybrisul uman, acest volum se concentrează pe transformare ca act de supraviețuire sau ca obiectificare finală.

Structura operei, reflectată în cuprins, ne poartă de la „Crearea Lumii” și „Potop” până la legendele tragice ale lui „Actaeon” sau „Philomela”, demonstrând o progresie de la haosul primordial la o ordine socială marcată de conflicte de gen și clasă. Este o epopee fără erou, unde protagonistul real este corpul uman aflat în pragul metamorfozei. Ritmul este alert, susținut de hexametrul dactilic adaptat unei engleze moderne care nu sacrifică rigoarea academică pentru accesibilitate, oferind o experiență de lectură ce recuperează nuanțele pierdute ale textului original latin.

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ISBN-13: 9780375712319
ISBN-10: 0375712313
Pagini: 568
Dimensiuni: 133 x 208 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Recomandăm această ediție cititorilor care doresc să redescopere clasicii dintr-o perspectivă contemporană și neîndulcită. Câștigătoare a premiului Harold Morton Landon, traducerea lui McCarter este esențială pentru a înțelege cum au fost construite ideile despre gen și violență în cultura occidentală. Veți câștiga o viziune clară asupra mitologiei, eliberată de straturile de cenzură istorică, într-un format Penguin Classic de o calitate ireproșabilă.

Despre autor

Publius Ovidius Naso, cunoscut sub numele de Ovid, a fost unul dintre cei mai prolifici și influenți poeți ai epocii de aur a literaturaturii latine. Opera sa, care include titluri celebre precum The Love Poems (Amores) și The Metamorphoses, a explorat teme variate, de la erotism și ironie socială până la cosmogonie și mitologie. Deși a fost exilat la Tomis de către împăratul Augustus, influența sa asupra artei și literaturii europene a rămas neîntreruptă timp de două milenii, fiind considerat maestrul suprem al narațiunii în versuri și al analizei psihologice a pasiunilor umane.

Recenzii

“Reading Mandelbaum’s extraordinary translation, one imagines Ovid in his darkest moods with the heart of Baudelaire . . . Mandelbaum’s translation is brilliant. It throws off the stiff and mild homogeneity of former translations and exposes the vivid colors of mockery, laughter, and poison woven so beautifully by the master.” —Booklist
 
“Mandelbaum’s Ovid, like his Dante, is unlikely to be equalled for years to come.” —Bloomsbury Review
 
“The Metamorphoses is conceived on the grandest possible scale . . . The number and variety of the metamorphoses are stunning: gods and goddesses, heroes and nymphs, mortal men and women are changed into wolves and bears, frogs and pigs, bulls and cows, deer and birds, trees and flowers, rocks and rivers, spiders and snakes, mountains and stars, while ships become sea nymphs, ants and stones and statues become people, men become women and vice versa . . . An elegantly entertaining and enthralling narrative.”
—from the Introduction by  J. C. McKeown

Notă biografică

The Roman poet PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO, known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, was born in 43 BC and died in 17 AD. His major works, Ars amatoria and Metamophorses, were famed both for their technical mastery and their innovative interpretations of classical myth. His verses were immensely influential on European art and literature, and remain important source texts of Greek and Roman mythology.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti were all published to great acclaim. His rendering of The Aeneid won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

ABOUT THE INTRODUCER:  J. C. McKeown has served as a Research Fellow and Senior Tutor at the University of Cambridge and is now Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His publications include a commentary on Ovid's Amores and A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities. He is currently working on The Oxford Anthology of Literature in the Roman World, which will be published in summer 2013.

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Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum.

Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike.

The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain.

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Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness, comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as well as the poem’s effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell, neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off.
The translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W. R. Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem’s most important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his most brilliant effects.
An analytical table of contents, a catalog of transformations, and a glossary are also included.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION


BOOK ONE

 The Creation

 The Four Ages

 Jove's Intervention

 The Story of Lycaon

 The Flood

 Deucalion and Pyrrha

 Apollo and Daphne

 Jove and Io

BOOK TWO

 The Story of Phaethon

 Jove in Arcady

 The Story of the Raven

 The Story of Ocyrhoe

 Mercury and Battus

 Mercury, Herse, and Aglauros

 The House of the Goddess Envy

 Europa

BOOK THREE

 The Story of Cadmus

 The Story of Actaeon

 The Story of Semele

 The Story of Tiresias

 The Story of Echo and Narcissus

 The Story of Pentheus and Bacchus

BOOK FOUR

 The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe

 The Story of Mars and Venus

 The Sun-god and Leucothoe

 The Story of Salmacis

 The End of the Daughters of Minyas

 The Story of Athamas and Ino

 The End of Cadmus

 The Story of Perseus

BOOK FIVE

 The Fighting of Perseus

 Minerva Visits the Muses

BOOK SIX

 The Story of Niobe

 The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela

BOOK SEVEN

 The Story of Jason and Medea

 War Between Crete and Athens

 The Story of Cephalus and Procris

BOOK EIGHT

 The Story of Nisus and Scylla

 The Story of Daedalus and Icarus

 The Calydonian Boar

 The Brand of Meleager

 The Return of Theseus

 The Story of Baucis and Philemon

 The Story of Erysichthon

BOOK NINE

 The Story of Achelous' Duel for Deianira

 The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira

 The Story of Hercules' Birth

 The Story of Dry ope

 The Story of Caunus and Byblis

 The Story of Iphis and Lanthe

BOOK TEN

 The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice

 The Story of Cyparissus

 The Story of Ganymede

 The Story of Apollo and Hyacinthus

 Two Incidents of Venus Anger

 The Story of Pygmalion

 The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha

 The Story of Adonis

 Venus Tells Adonis the Story of Atalanta

 The Fate of Adonis

BOOK ELEVEN

 The Death of Orpheus

 The Story of Midas

 Midas Never Learns

 The Building of the Walls of Troy

 The Story of Thetis

 Ceyx Tells the Story of Daedalion

 The Story of Peleus' Cattle

 The Quest of Ceyx

 The Story of Aesacus and Hesperia

BOOK TWELVE

 The Invasion of Troy

 Nestor Tells the Story of Caeneus

 Story of the Battle with the Centaurs

 Nestor Is Asked Why He Omitted Hercules

BOOK THIRTEEN

 The Argument between Ajax and Ulysses

 After the Fall

 The Sacrifice of Polyxena

 The Discovery of Polydorus

 The Story of Memnon

 The Pilgrimage of Aeneas

 The Story of Anius' Daughters

 The Pilgrimage Resumed

 The Story of Galatea

 The Song of Polyphemus

 The Transformation of Acis

 The Story of Glaucus

BOOK FOURTEEN

 The Story of Glaucus Continued

 The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed

 Achaemenides Tells His Story

 The Story of Picus

 The Pilgrimage of Aeneas Resumed

 The Narrative of Diomedes

 The Return of Venulus

 The Deification of Aeneas

 Legendary History of Rome

 Pomona and Vertumnus

 The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete

 More Early Roman History

BOOK FIFTEEN

 The Succession of Numa

 The Teachings of Pythagoras

 The Return of Numa

 The Story of Hippolytus

 The Story of Cipus

 The Story of Aesculapius

 The Deification of Caesar

 The Epilogue


COMMENTARY by Joseph D. Reed

EXPANDED GLOSSARY AND INDEX