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Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid /
No full textWidely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression. In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the companion Heroides—through a series of dramatic monologues addressed to absent lovers—he imagines how love goes for women. "You think she is ardent with you? So was she ardent with him," cries Oenone to Paris. Sappho, revisiting the forest where she lay with Phaon, sighs, "The place / without your presence is just another place. / You were what made it magic." The Remedia Amoris sees love as a sickness, and offers curative advice: "The beginning is your best chance to resist"; "Try to avoid onions, / imported or domestic. And arugula is bad. / Whatever may incline your body to Venus / keep away from." The voices of men and women produce a volley of extravagant laments over love’s inconstancy and confusions, as though elegance and vigor of expression might compensate for heartache.Though these love poems come to us across millennia, Slavitt’s translations, introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda, ensure that their sentiments have not faded with the passage of time. They delight us with their wit, even as we weep a little in recognition.Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression. In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the companion Heroides—through a series of dramatic monologues addressed to absent lovers—he imagines how love goes for women. "You think she is ardent with you? So was she ardent with him," cries Oenone to Paris. Sappho, revisiting the forest where she lay with Phaon, sighs, "The place / without your presence is just another place. / You were what made it magic." The Remedia Amoris sees love as a sickness, and offers curative advice: "The beginning is your best chance to resist"; "Try to avoid onions, / imported or domestic. And arugula is bad. / Whatever may incline your body to Venus / keep away from." The voices of men and women produce a volley of extravagant laments over love’s inconstancy and confusions, as though elegance and vigor of expression might compensate for heartache.Though these love poems come to us across millennia, Slavitt’s translations, introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda, ensure that their sentiments have not faded with the passage of time. They delight us with their wit, even as we weep a little in recognition.Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures.Electronic reproduction. :Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.SlavittDavid R.: David R. Slavitt is a poet and the translator of more than ninety works of fiction, poetry, and drama.DirdaMichael: Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist and the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011
Ovid, the Fasti and the stars
No full textAccording to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the
stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the
rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar to us from Hesiod onwards.1
For Quintilian, who had the benefit of a stable civil calendar, there may have seemed little
reason beyond a desire for poetic expression to specify the date in this manner: but before
Caesar’s calendar reforms in 45 BC, the appearance and disappearance of certain stars just
before sunrise and just after sunset provided a much more regular guide to the year than the
erratic calendars of Greece and Rome, which were often out of step with the solar year.2 It is
therefore not surprising to find the same method of specifying the date in prose authors too;3
and lists of these stellar phenomena, arranged in various calendar-like formats, are found in
both texts and inscriptions. These lists, known as parapegmata, can be traced back to fifth
century Greece, but the tradition may be considerably older.4
Whatever our reaction to Quintilian’s claim, it is certainly the case that a good knowledge of
the stars is important for a full understanding of Ovid’s calendar poem, the Fasti. To a large
extent the poem presents itself as a poetic version of the Roman calendar: each book covers a
different month, and as the year and the work progress, Ovid marks the dates of various
religious festivals and historical events, as in the real fasti. However, unlike many of the
extant fasti, Ovid combines this material with material from the parapegmatic tradition, giving
dates for the rising and setting of various stars and constellations, and for the journey of the
sun through the zodiac. The inclusion of the constellations – and of the aetiological tales
explaining their presence in the sky – enables Ovid to introduce a variety of Greek myths into
the Roman calendar, where they would otherwise have no place
Comunicación Ovid
No full textComunicación de Ovid en la XVII Asamblea Anual de Rebiun celebrada en Leó
[Letter from Meyer Bodansky to Ovid O. Meyer - June 1939]
No full textLetter from Dr. Meyer Bodansky to Dr. Ovid O. Meyer, requesting a program for an upcoming conference that Dr. Bodansky is interested in attending
Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith
No full textTranscript, 49 pp.Smith reviews his 46 1/2 year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company (later Burroughs Corporation).
Subjects include: Burroughs calculators and accounting machines; Burroughs competitors, especially Moon-Hopkins and Felt & Tarrant; the Comptometer; Burroughs' marketing strategies; and the work environment at Burroughs.Smith, Ovid M.. (1985). Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107635
Ovid, Metamorphoses X
No full textMetamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid\u27s most memorable stories- Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples), Venus and Adonis, and Myrrha. This edition contains the Latin text as well as in-depth commentary notes which provide language support, explain difficult words and phrases, highlight literary features and supply background knowledge. The introduction presents an overview of Ovid and the historical and literary context, as well as a plot synopsis and a discussion of the literary genre and metre. Suggested reading is also included.https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/clas_books/1005/thumbnail.jp
PUTTING THE EMPIRE IN ITS PLACE: OVID ON THE GOLDENNESS OF ROME
No full textThis study explores the relationship between poetry and politics in Books 1 and 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Vergil had refashioned the concept of the golden age to better resonate with Roman values, and Ovid in turn responds to Vergil by making his own golden age free from law, seafaring, and warfare (Met. 1.89-112). Ovid’s golden age clearly foils his ‘praise’ of Augustus in Book 15 (819-70), and thus challenges Vergil’s innovations. Ovid closely connects his demiurge (opifex, 1.79), who created the conditions necessary for the existence of the golden age, to himself (15.871-9); they together display the potency of poetic power. Poesis is different than the power of empire, which is inherently destructive: Jupiter terminates the golden age (1.113), and Augustus’ accomplishments are only ostensibly ‘peaceful’ (15.823, 833). Ovid suggests that the power of poesis remains beyond the destructive reach of Augustus, since Rome’s power is limited to the post-golden, chaotic world, and that poesis enjoys the status of eternality which Rome and Augustus claimed to possess themselves
[Invoice of Sale for "Fetal-Maternal Interdependence: Nutritional and Metabolic Factors" by Dr. Bodansky from The Ovid Bell Press for the University of Texas - October 7, 1941]
No full textInvoice for $12.63 from The Ovid Bell Press for the University of Texas for up to 100 reprints of "Fetal-Maternal Interdependence: Nutritional and Metabolic Factors" by Dr. Bodansky
Manuscript: Virgil, Aeneid: Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1484
No full textManuscript: Virgil, Aeneid; Ovid, Ars Amatoria.
Written on paper in German littera hybrida, in the late 15th century.
A cheap book for students, containing the texts of two important classical works. Its (originally) wide margins are heavily annotated by a contemporary German scholar. Similar notes are found in other German copies of about the same date.
On fo. 1r, in a 16th-cent. hand, ‘Sum ex libris Elia. Hutt[ . . .] 80 [lined through] 83’; on fo. 324r ‘Hic liber est Leonardi de bylb’ [lined through]. Pen-trials on fo. 324v. include words and phrases in German: ‘florentina mater’, ‘wie gernn,’ ‘Iunckfraw Elisabett in asiam,’ ‘Junckfraw ir Seyts gar wolgem’m auf.’ Acquired by the University Library from the New York bookseller B. M. Rosenthal in 1961.
Cent Rare PA 6801 .A2 1484
Life sciences reading material in vernacular: lessons from developing a bilingual (IsiZulu and English) book on South African frogs
No full textThe discussion of African languages as languages of learning and teaching can be traced back to the 1980s. To date, this discussion still continues and efforts to intellectualise African languages have been lax. Here, we present practical South African examples of higher education achievements in African languages that demonstrate the challenges and opportunities of African language planning and corpus development. We particularly focus on the development of a peer-reviewed bilingual (IsiZulu and English) book on the frogs of Zululand, South Africa. The publication under consideration falls within the life sciences, and it is the first comprehensive book on South African frogs to be written in an African language. Developing life sciences reading material in vernacular is a time-consuming process that requires a multidisciplinary team which understands both life and social sciences. Furthermore, when vocabulary relating to a focal species is undocumented, field research is necessary to identify the nuances of a specific language or culture. This language planning effort under discussion demonstrates the IsiZulu language's ability to communicate life sciences and how language planning efforts can be made integrative and inclusive of previously marginalised languages.Financial support for Fortunate Mafeta Phaka was provided by the National Research Foundation [UID: 114663], North-West University, Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (VLIR) Global Minds program [Contract Number: R-9363], and Youth 4 African Wildlife NPC
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