Reading Ovid
Title | Reading Ovid PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2007-03-08 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521849012 |
Presents a selection from Metamorphoses, designed for those who have completed an introductory Latin course.
Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales
Title | Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Russell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780814213223 |
Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies and how it was absorbed into the classical Ovidian tradition.
Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII
Title | Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII PDF eBook |
Author | Ovid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Title | Ovid's Metamorphoses PDF eBook |
Author | Christine L. Albright |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2017-09-06 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1351967665 |
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains: a Latin passage adapted from the epic an accompanying vocabulary list a short commentary to help with translation a concise review of the specific grammar covered a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem, or featured myth. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions, this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece, allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose, and offers opportunities for literary discussion. Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award.
Daphne
Title | Daphne PDF eBook |
Author | Will Boast |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1631495429 |
In this “elegant meditation on modern-day emotion” (San Francisco Chronicle), best-selling, prize-winning author Will Boast reimagines the myth of Daphne and Apollo. Will Boast’s long-anticipated first novel is an “outright marvelous debut [that] breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions of love and risk” (Laura van den Berg). Born with a rare condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has had few close friends and fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy, charming Ollie, her well-honed defenses falter, and she’s faced with a critical choice: cling to her protective isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest, Daphne is “an amiable exploration of how humans might come to manage their raucous hearts” (NewYorker.com).
Metamorphoses, Book XIV.
Title | Metamorphoses, Book XIV. PDF eBook |
Author | Ovid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?
Title | Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? PDF eBook |
Author | Madeleine Kahn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317249003 |
Why Are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape? raises feminist issues in a way that reminds people why they matter. We eavesdrop on the vivid student characters in their hilarious, frustrating, and thought-provoking efforts to create strong and flexible selves against the background of representations of women in contemporary and classical Western literature. Young women working together in a group make surprising choices about what to learn, and how to go about learning it. Along the way they pose some provocative questions about how well traditional education serves women. Equally engaging is Kahn's own journey as she confronts questions that are fundamental to women, to teachers, to students and to parents: Why do we read? What can we teach? and What does gender have to do with it?