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008			220610s2022 nyu b 000 p eng
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100	0		_aOvid, _d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., _eauthor. _921636
240	1	0	_aMetamorphoses. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aMetamorphoses / _cOvid ; translated with an introduction by Stephanie McCarter.
264		1	_a[New York, New York] : _bPenguin Books, _c[2022]
300			_axxxvii, 567 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aPlace of publication from publisher's website.
500			_aTranslated from the Latin.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aMachine generated contents note: _tMETAMORPHOSES -- _tBOOK ONE -- _tProem -- _tThe Creation of the World -- _tThe Creation of Human Beings -- _tThe Ages of Humankind -- _tThe Gigantomachy -- _tThe Council of the Gods -- _tLycaon -- _tThe Flood -- _tDeucalion and Pyrrha -- _tThe Python -- _tApollo Attempts to Rape Daphne -- _tJove Rapes and Transforms Io -- _tSyrinx and Pan -- _tMercury Kills Argus -- _tIo Regains Her Form -- _tPhaethon -- _tBOOK TWO -- _tPhaethon -- _tReactions to Phaethon's Death: The Heliades, Cycnus, and the Sun -- _tJove Rapes Callisto -- _tThe Raven and Coronis -- _tThe Crow and Nyctimene (the Owl) -- _tThe Raven and Coronis (continued) -- _tOcyrhoe Becomes Hippe -- _tBattus -- _tMercury, Herse, and Aglauros -- _tJove Rapes Europa -- _tBOOK THREE -- _tCadmus -- _tDiana and Actaeon -- _tJove and Semele -- _tTiresias -- _tEcho and Narcissus -- _tPentheus -- _tAcoetes' Crew Becomes Dolphins -- _tPentheus (continued) -- _tBOOK FOUR -- _tThe Daughters of Minyas -- _tPyramus and Thisbe -- _tVenus and Mars -- _tThe Sun Rapes Leucothoe -- _tSalmacis Rapes Hermaphroditus -- _tThe Daughters of Minyas Become Bats -- _tIno and Athamas -- _tCadmus and Harmonia Become Snakes -- _tPerseus and Atlas -- _tPerseus and Andromeda -- _tPerseus and Medusa -- _tBOOK FIVE -- _tThe Battle for Andromeda -- _tPerseus, Proetus, and Polydectes -- _tMinerva and the Muses -- _tPyreneus Tries to Rape the Muses -- _tThe Pierides Challenge the Muses -- _tPluto Kidnaps and Rapes Proserpina -- _tAlpheus Tries to Rape Arethusa -- _tTriptolemus -- _tThe Pierides Become Magpies -- _tBOOK SIX -- _tArachne -- _tNiobe -- _tLycian Rustics Become Frogs -- _tApollo Flays Marsyas -- _tPelops Mourns for Niobe -- _tTereus Rapes Philomela -- _tBoreas Rapes Orithyia -- _tBOOK SEVEN -- _tMedea and Jason -- _tMedea and Aeson -- _tMedea and Pelias -- _tMedea's Flight -- _tTheseus -- _tMinos -- _tThe Arrival of Cephalus in Aegina -- _tThe Plague at Aegina -- _tCephalus and Procris -- _tBOOK EIGHT -- _tScylla and Minos -- _tThe Labyrinth -- _tDaedalus and Icarus -- _tDaedalus and Perdix -- _tThe Calydonian Boar Hunt -- _tAlthaea and Meleager -- _tAcheloiis -- _tThe Echinades -- _tAcheloiis Rapes Perimele -- _tBaucis and Philemon -- _tErysichthon and His Daughter Mestra -- _tBOOK NINE -- _tAcheloiis and Hercules -- _tHercules, Deianira, and the Centaur Nessus -- _tThe Death of Hercules -- _tHercules and Lichas -- _tThe Deification of Hercules -- _tAlcmena and the Birth of Hercules -- _tDryope -- _tIolaiis and the Prophecy of Themis -- _tByblis and Caunus -- _tIphis and Ianthe -- _tBOOK TEN -- _tOrpheus and Eurydice -- _tOrpheus Charms the Trees -- _tCyparissus -- _tThe Songs of Orpheus -- _tJove Rapes Ganymede -- _tApollo and Hyacinthus -- _tThe Cerastae and the Daughters of Propoetus -- _tPygmalion and the Ivory Statue -- _tMyrrha and Cinyras -- _tVenus and Adonis -- _tAtalanta and Hippomenes -- _tThe Death of Adonis -- _tBOOK ELEVEN -- _tThe Death of Orpheus -- _tPunishment of the Maenads -- _tMidas -- _tThe Foundation of Troy -- _tPeleus Rapes Thetis -- _tPeleus at the Court of Ceyx -- _tDaedalion and Chione -- _tPsamathe's Wolf -- _tCeyx and Alcyone -- _tThe Storm at Sea -- _tThe House of Sleep -- _tAesacus and Hesperia -- _tBOOK TWELVE -- _tThe Sacrifice of Iphigenia -- _tThe House of Rumor -- _tAchilles and Cycnus -- _tNestor's Tales -- _tNeptune Rapes Caenis/Caeneus -- _tThe Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs -- _tCyllarus and Hylonome -- _tCaeneus -- _tHercules and Periclymenus -- _tThe Death of Achilles -- _tBOOK THIRTEEN -- _tAjax and Ulysses Contend for Achilles' Armor -- _tThe Fall of Troy -- _tThe Sacrifice of Polyxena -- _tHecuba and Polymestor -- _tAurora and Memnon -- _tAeneas' Travels -- _tAnius and His Daughters -- _tThe Daughters of Orion -- _tAeneas' Travels Resumed -- _tGalatea, Acis, and Polyphemus -- _tScylla and Glaucus -- _tBOOK FOURTEEN -- _tGlaucus, Scylla and Circe -- _tThe Travels of Aeneas Resumed -- _tThe Sibyl and Apollo -- _tMacareus and Achaemenides Swap Tales -- _tAchaemenides' Tale: The Cyclops -- _tMacareus' Tale (I): Circe and Odysseus' Men -- _tMacareus' Tale (II): Circe, Picus, and Canens -- _tAeneas' Wars in Latium -- _tDiomedes' Men Become Birds -- _tThe Apulian Shepherd -- _tAeneas' Ships Become Sea Nymphs -- _tThe Defeat of Turnus -- _tArdea Transforms into a Heron -- _tThe Deification of Aeneas -- _tThe Alban Kings -- _tPomona and Vertumnus -- _tIphis and Anaxarete -- _tPomona and Vertumnus (continued) -- _tWar with the Sabines -- _tThe Deification of Romulus -- _tThe Deification of Hersilia -- _tBOOK FIFTEEN -- _tNuma -- _tMyscelos and the Founding of Croton -- _tPythagoras -- _tEgeria and Hippolytus/Virbius -- _tCipUS -- _tAsclepius -- _tThe Deification of Julius Caesar.
650		0	_aMythology, Classical _vPoetry.
650		0	_aMetamorphosis _xMythology _vPoetry. _9245610
655		7	_aNarrative poetry. _2lcgft
700	1		_aMcCarter, Stephanie, _etranslator, _ewriter of introduction.
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