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  1. On Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Author: Williams, Gareth
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each... more

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    Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another.Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself. Ovid challenges us to recognize flux as fundamental to human experience: circumstances shift, fortunes ebb and flow, and our very identities ceaselessly evolve across from one life stage to another.Capturing the energy and excitement that Ovid's poem generates among readers, Williams also sheds new light on its modern provocations. His fresh interpretations of the Metamorphoses reveal its power to enrich and inform our daily existence amid the uncertainties of life today

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231553759
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    Series: Core Knowledge
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Change in literature; Fables, Latin; Latin poetry
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, 3 interior
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  2. On Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Author: Williams, Gareth
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid's Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a... more

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    Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid's Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231553759
    Series: Core Knowledge
    Subjects: Change in literature; Fables, Latin-History and criticism; Latin poetry-History and criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
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  3. On Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Author: Williams, Gareth
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Ovid was hardly the first Greco-Roman writer to treat the theme of metamorphic myth, but his poem of transformation was itself transformative in the literary landscape of Augustus' Rome. Breathtakingly original in the scale of its intellectual and... more

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    Bereichsbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften, Abteilung Klassische Philologie
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    "Ovid was hardly the first Greco-Roman writer to treat the theme of metamorphic myth, but his poem of transformation was itself transformative in the literary landscape of Augustus' Rome. Breathtakingly original in the scale of its intellectual and creative ambition, in many ways it changed the course of Latin literary history through the influence it exerted on successive generations of poets at Rome. From Late Antiquity onwards, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance into the Early Modern period and far beyond down to the present day, the work has stood the test of time as one of the most influential cultural legacies of ancient Rome. Gareth David Williams demonstrates how Ovid's Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change, but a study of change itself. Perspectives are constantly shifting, appearances deceive, and reality is always a work in progress. The motives that cause different characters to act as they do are often slippery, mixed, and hard to pin down. Williams asks why this is, and explores what Ovid was aiming to achieve in creating this changeful world at the dawn of the first century CE. He also shows why Ovid speaks so eloquently of and to the modern moment. Williams is centrally concerned with the Metamorphoses as a text of our times. What work can the poem do with and for us now in the 21st century? How can it inform our experience amidst the uncertainties of modern life?"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231200707; 9780231200714
    Series: Core knowledge
    Subjects: Change in literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Fables, Latin; Latin poetry
    Other subjects: Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D): Metamorphoses; Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D)
    Scope: xi, 175 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction -- Diversity, idiosyncrasy, and self-discovery in the Metamorphoses -- The liabilities of language : change and instability in Ovid's world of words -- The path of deviance : sexual morality and the incestuous urge in the Metamorphoses -- Rough justice : victimization, revenge, and divine punishment in the Metamorphoses.
  4. On Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Author: Williams, Gareth
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each... more

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    Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another.Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself. Ovid challenges us to recognize flux as fundamental to human experience: circumstances shift, fortunes ebb and flow, and our very identities ceaselessly evolve across from one life stage to another.Capturing the energy and excitement that Ovid’s poem generates among readers, Williams also sheds new light on its modern provocations. His fresh interpretations of the Metamorphoses reveal its power to enrich and inform our daily existence amid the uncertainties of life today

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231553759
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    Series: Core knowledge
    Subjects: Change in literature; Fables, Latin; Latin poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 175 Seiten)
  5. On Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Author: Williams, Gareth
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid's Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a... more

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    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid's Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Diversity, Idiosyncrasy, and Self-Discovery in the Metamorphoses -- 2.The Liabilities of Language: Change and Instability in Ovid's World of Words -- 3. The Path of Deviance: Sexual Morality and the Incestuous Urge in the Metamorphoses -- 4. Rough Justice: Victimization, Revenge, and Divine Punishment in the Metamorphoses -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231553759
    Series: Core Knowledge
    Subjects: Change in literature; Fables, Latin-History and criticism; Latin poetry-History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (190 pages)
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