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"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"--… (meer)
Unieke en originele verwerking van het hele Griekse en Romein¬se mythologische materiaal. Vele pareltjes. Favoriet van het postmodernisme. Amorele sfeer, en vandaar verwondering lof Augustus (die toch familiewaarden wilde herstellen). Mijn favoriet: Philemon en Baucis ( )
Ovidius is een wereldberoemd schrijver uit de Romeinse oudheid. Ik moet echter zeggen dat ik niet erg onder de indruk ben van dit boek. De vertaling is aangenaam om te lezen, maar inhoudelijk vind ik het niet bijzonder interessant. Niet alle grote boeken uit de wereldliteratuur zijn nu nog de moeite waard. Gestopt met lezen na hoofdstuk 4, blz 117 ( )
Een fantastisch werk waar al die oude namen zoals Icarus, Theseus, Orpheus en Narcissus voorbijkomen. Niet alleen voor de die-hards maar ook geen lekkere instapper om wat meer over de mythologie de weten te komen. Ik vond het prachtig.
NBD|Biblion: Tot de belangrijkste werken uit de Latijnse letterkunde rekent men algemeen de 'Metamorphosen' van Ovidius (43 v.Chr.-17 n.Chr.). Wat vorm betreft is dit werk, bestaande uit vijftien boeken of hoofdstukken, een epos, maar eigenlijk is het meer een verzameling van tientallen mythologische verhalen die het motief van de gedaanteverwisseling gemeen hebben. In vorige eeuwen werden de 'Metamorphosen' dan ook gebruikt als plezierig leesbare inleiding in de Griekse mythologie. Net als in andere taalgebieden is Ovidius' hoofdwerk bij ons veel vertaald, meestal in fragmenten. De bekendste volledige vertaling is die van Joost van den Vondel (1671), in alexandrijnen. In haar eerder in de mooie Baskerville-serie verschenen en nu als paperback herdrukte versie heeft M. d'Hane-Scheltema zich bediend van een zevenvoetige jambe, die het uitstekend blijkt te doen: haar even getrouwe als poëtische vertaling is absoluut de beste die bij ons ooit is gemaakt. Een heldere inleiding gaat aan de tekst vooraf; een handig register van namen is toegevoegd. Vrij kleine druk. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This translation of Ovid's seamless song is inscribed to my brother in law and in love, Leonard Feldman, and my sister, Rayma.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Now I shall tell you of things that change, new being / Out of old: since you, O Gods, created / Mutable arts and gifts, give me the voice / To tell the shifting story of the world / From its beginning to the present hour.
Širdį man traukia giedot, kaip naujus pavidalus gavo Žemiški kūnai.
My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. You heavenly powers, since you were responsible for those changes, as for all else, look favourably on my attempts, and spin an unbroken thread of verse, from the earliest beginnings of the world, down to my own times. [Mary M. Innes translation, Penguin Books, 1955]
My soul would sing of metamorphoses. (Tr. Allan Mandelbaum)
My mind would tell of forms changed into new bodies; gods, into my undertakings (for you changed even those) breathe life and from the first origin of the world to my own times draw forth a perpetual song! (Tr. Z Philip Ambrose)
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Žemės kraštuos, kur tik sieks raminanti Romos galybė, žmonės mane skaitys, ir lūpose būsiu aš gyvas, jeigu teisybės yra kiek dainių spėjimuos, per amžius.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
As long as Rome is the Eternal City / These lines shall echo from the lips of men, / As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, / That immortality is mine to wear.
Wherever Roman power extends over the lands Rome has subdued, people will read my verse. If there be any truth in poets' prophecies, I shall live to all eternity, immortalized by fame. [Mary M. Innes translation, Penguin Books, 1955]
May that day that has no power except over this body of mine complete when it will the span of my uncertain years: yet with my best part will I be borne eternally above the lofty star, and indelible will be our name; and where Roman culture reigns upon the conquered earth, upon the lips of people will I be read, and in glory through every age, if prophecies of bards have ought of truth, will I live. (Tr. Z. Philip Ambrose)
"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"--
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Favoriet van het postmodernisme. Amorele sfeer, en vandaar verwondering lof Augustus (die toch familiewaarden wilde herstellen). Mijn favoriet: Philemon en Baucis (