OVID METAMORPHOSES PDF

Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and ZissosвЂ™s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and university level. This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary.

The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies вЂlaw and orderвЂ™, masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. Choreography by Herbert Ross Music by Arnold Schoenberg (Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. The amount of Ovids surviving poetry is almost exactly equal to the sum total of poetry which has come down to. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes.

OVID METAMORPHOSES PDF

This book has 840 pages in the PDF version. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. This extract from OvidвЂ™s Metamorphoses recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.

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