Publius Ovidius Naso

Ovids Metamorfoser ble sannsynligvis skrevet rundt 8 e. Kr., da dikteren ble landsforvist av keiser Augustus. Eposet, som her for første gang i sin helhet er gjendiktet til norsk, regnes som Ovids hovedverk og er et av de viktigste litterære verkene i verdenshistorien. Med forvandlinger som bærende motiv skildrer verket verdens historie, fra alt livs første opphav til Ovids egen samtid. Eposet er vårt største enkeltstående reservoar av greske og romerske myter, og omfatter beretningene om Ekko og Narkissos, Persevs og Andromeda, Jason og Medea, Minotauren i labyrinten, Daidalos og Ikaros, og Orfevs og Evrydike, for å nevne noen. Alt er skildret med et uforlignelig verbalt og visuelt overskudd og et helt særegent narrativt driv, som alltid tar den enkeltes skjebne, det være seg som plante, dyr, menneske, naturvesen, monster eller gud, på alvor. Verkets innflytelse på ettertidens litteratur, kunst og tanke har vært makeløs helt inn i vår tid. Les hele anmeldelsen i Vinduet her: .

The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a striking translation. In this tour de force, all the classic tales of Western mythology come to life. With 15 ills. "Charles Boer has reshaped the Metamorphoses in a way Olson, Zukofsky, and Pound would have approved of, making us see the poem's violence, turbulence, and angular strangeness. Every age refinds the classics in its own way: Boer sees Ovid's primitive energy and gives us a poem we can place beside Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a harsher, more staccato, louder Ovid than were used to, but also a more vivid one."-Guy Davenport "This is the authentic Ovid, the feeling, the pulse, the mental and vocal style of a vanished people. Boer has found this hidden beat, and the eerie excitement in every line shows me what veils have lain between us and the ancients up till now . . . This is what the ancients were sitting still for, nothing less, of that I'm certain." -William Kotzwinkle

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Metamorphose is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature.

An edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin, in which the verses do not have line numbers. The idea behind removing the numbers is to make the reading experience less artificial and thus more enjoyable. There is no critical apparatus or introduction, just the text of the Roman poem, printed in a highly readable font. This is not a reprint but a new setting of a text of 1892. Une dition des M tamorphoses d'Ovide en latin, dans laquelle les vers ne sont pas num rot s. L'objet de cet enl vement est de rendre l'exp rience du lecteur moins artificiel et par cons quent plus agr able. Il n'y a pas d'appart critique ni d'introduction, mais tout simplement le texte du po me romain, imprim en caract res hautement lisibles. Ce n'est pas une r impression mais plut t un nouveau r glage d'un texte de 1892. Eine Ausgabe von Ovids Metamorphosen in Latein, in der die Verse keine Zeilennummern haben. Die Idee hinter diesem Entfernen der Zahlen ist, die Leseerfahrung weniger unnat rlich und deswegen angenehmer zu machen. Es gibt keinen textkritische Apparat oder Einf hrung, nur der Text des r mischen Gedichts, gedruckt in einer sehr lesbaren Schriftart. Das ist kein Nachdruck, sondern eine neue Einstellung eines Textes von 1892. Un'edizione dei Metamorfosi di Ovidio in latino, in cui i versi non sono numerati. Lo scopo di questo sequestro quello di rendere l'esperienza del lettore meno artificiale e quindi pi piacevole. Non vi alcun apparato critico o introduzione, solo il testo della poesia romana, stampato in un carattere altamente leggibile. Questa non una ristampa ma piuttosto una nuova impostazione di un testo del 1892. Una edici n de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio en lat n, en el que los versos no est n numeradas. El prop sito de esta supresi n es hacer la experiencia del lector menos artificial y por lo tanto m s agradable. No hay ning n aparato cr tico o introducci n, s lo el texto del poema romano, impreso en un tipo de letra muy legible. Esto no es una reimpresi n sino un nuevo ajuste de un texto de 1892.