Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. Right. All Rights Reserved. Anthony Madrid lives in Victoria, Texas. You’ll be able to say with conviction “To hell with all of ’em.”. nat lupus inter oves, fulvos vehit unda leones, The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. Swim in silent wonder into kitchens, “That sink slowly”! and drop their anchors on the meads below: Hippolytus, Cipus, Aesculapius, The Caesars), Ancient ― Ovid, Metamorphoses. He is a correspondent for the Daily. 182) suggests that Ovid means copia civis, but the point of the whole story is not the amount of food brought to his banquet but the fact that Midas thought he would have everything by possessing gold in abundance. the running hart could in the stream by swiftness nothing get. They might seem the same to you, even if you concentrate. Metamorphoses By Ovid Written 1 A.C.E. It is written in hexameter verse. George Sandys, Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, and Represented in … The Metamorphoses of Ovid is said to be "translated freely". Polyphemus, Circe, Picus, Pomona, Romulus), (Pythagoras, The first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries’ version of Ovid’s masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication. I wanted those acorns to be Ovid’s. It’s rather more self-contained and memorable than Ovid’s usual run of sixteen lines. Translator. It booted not the foaming boar his crooked tusks to whet; 1) Lyrics. Translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al. Anthony S. Kline, A complete English of Orpheus, Midas, Peleus, Ceyx, Alcyone, Aesacus), (Rumour, Cycnus, Visit our store to buy archival issues of the magazine, prints, T-shirts, and accessories. 1 Bk VIII:81-151 Scylla, deserted, is changed to a bird. or downward driv’n, they bruise the tender vine, The first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries’ version of Ovid’s masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication. I will be reading it for my own enjoyment and to easier … and ploughs above, where late he sowed his corn. and Baucis), (Hercules, Alcmene, Iole, Galanthis, And of course birds can’t stay in the air forever, so eventually they plunk down dead into the water. The Metamorphoses of Ovid have been frequently translated into the English language. If you read ’em carelessly they will seem more or less the same to you. He uses lines of six accents as Ovid did, albeit with irregular meter. and crooked ships did shadow vines, the which the flood did hide. amongst the sheep. 3 Bk VIII:152-182 The Minotaur, Theseus, and Ariadne Bk VIII:183-235 Daedalus and Icarus Bk VIII:236-259 The death of Talos Bk VIII:260-328 The Calydonian Boar Hunt – the cause. Have you noticed that not one of these translators managed to include the part from the original about the dolphins smacking hard into the oak trees? et ducit remos illic, ubi nuper arabat: Like “Fas est ab hoste doceri. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to his exile from Rome in 8 a.d., is the primary source for over two hundred classical legends that survived to the twenty-first century. Is their any of the two that stands out? In woods the dolphins keep Golding was read and pilfered by Shakespeare. and their broad fins entangle in the boughs. In fact, the late Ted Hughes went ahead and improved the image into this: Dolphins churn through copses. ©Copyright 2000 A.S.Kline, Phaethon), Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa), Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon Dryden basically said: You gotta do what you gotta do. unda vehit tigres; nec vires fulminis apro, Phaethon), (Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa), (Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus), (Pyramus, Leucothoe, Salmacis, Ino, Cadmus, Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. In fields they anchor cast, as chance did guide, That sink slowly. Golding writes in what are called fourteeners. On the other hand, anybody can see there’s some real poetry in a few of those lines. Bibliographic Record . The fowls, long beating on their wings in vain, First, there seems to be the divide between verse and prose translations, and in my research, it seems like there's a slight consensus toward the prose being the better way to enjoy the work in English. To torment the Sun, Venus enflames him with desire for Leucothoe, a […] Here’s the original Latin, for all the good that’s gonna do anybody: Occupat hic collem, cumba sedet alter adunca Apparently the two translations that come up often is by Martin Charles (WW norton) or David Raeburn (Penguin) Besides the obvious differences with one being in blank verse and the other in hexameter verse. It’s a nice bit. The good news has always been that it hardly matters how hard a task is, when no one’s gonna do it. It captures the images and sounds of Ovid's poem really well, but the playfulness of Ovid is in many places simply impossible to … In Best Books Ever Listings. in boats, where they not long before to plough and cart did go. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Translate texts with the world's best machine translation technology, developed by the creators of Linguee. Indeed, I’ll close with one of Hughes’ even more radical departures, from just before the dolphins. They are as follows: Much could be said about each of these. Like “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt … Which is to say it's nothing like Melville's Metamorphoses —nor Golding's, Sandys's, Garth's or More's. by the corresponding line reference in the Latin text. His rapid force no longer helps the boar; The wand’ring birds, hid earth long sought in vain, The grim and greedy wolf did swim among the siely sheep, Don’t be impossible. Linguee. Leucothoe is only one of the many raped women of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, though she is not as famous as Daphne, Io, Persephone, or Philomela. He only takes parts of the Metamorphoses and adds a lot of his own material. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythological tales, starting with a cosmogony and finishing with the deification of Julius Caesar. Pygmalion, Myrrha, Venus and Adonis, Atalanta), (Death It’s not in the Latin, but it’s excellent. And once again, one finds some poetry. No diddling. and Baucis). You nip and tuck the thing to the point where your result is elegant and limpid and has some reason for existing. The sea nymphs wondered under waves the towns and groves to see, Somebody born after 1960. It’s easy on the eyes. mirantur sub aqua lucos urbesque domosque Sandys wrote part of his version in what is now the State of Virginia. Exhibit 3, John Dryden, 1693 and reprinted in the “Garth” Ovid, 1717: One climbs a cliff; one in his boat is borne, incursant ramis agitataque robora pulsant. into the sea, with weary wings, were driv’n to fall anon. Just from these eighteen lines you can see why people thought Dryden represented a breakthrough. the ugly seals and porpoises now to and fro did float. Insulting Nereids on the cities ride, On leaves and masts of mighty oaks they browse, The main thing is you gotta concentrate on the three exhibits presented below. Suggest as a translation of "Metamorphoses of Ovid" Copy; DeepL Translator Linguee. She is collateral damage in Venus’s revenge against the Sun, who exposed the goddess’s affair with the war-god Mars. Line one: “to deplore” meant “to lament or bewail one’s misfortunes,” so don’t let that trip you up. aut subiecta terunt curvae vineta carinae; This extraordinary collection of some 250 Greek and Roman myths and folk tales has always been a popular favorite, and has decisively shaped western art and literature from the moment it was completed in A.D. 8. Selections from the Metamorphoses, pág. The fleeting fowls, long having sought for land to rest upon, One should learn even from one's enemies.” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses. One thing before we get into it. Open menu. His philosophy was that word-for-word translation was stupid, because what happens is your original author has written something screwed up or inefficient or otherwise faulty, and it’s just fine in the original because of the sounds—but then you lose the sounds when you change the passage into English. 387 likes. The lightning stroke of his strong tusk was of no use, then, to the wild boar, nor his swift legs to the stag—both alike were swept away. nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae. EN. Sandys provides notes (and supplementary essays) like a Victorian eccentric. “The stag swims faster than he ran before” is kinda brilliant. In meadows green were anchors cast (so fortune did provide) How ’bout you? Good is good. Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. The Metamorphoses The Metamorphoses is Ovid's longest extant work, a continuous epic poem in fifteen books, consisting of nearly 12,000 lines. Caeneus, Lapiths and Centaurs, Achilles), (Ajax, Bk VIII:1-80 Scylla decides to betray her city of Megara. Anyway here’s a completely straightforward prose translation (the old Mary Innes version, Penguin Classics, 1955), so you know just exactly what the Latin says. figitur in viridi, si fors tulit, ancora prato, the stag swims faster than he ran before. And where of late the kids had cropped the grass, So what are you supposed to do? METAMORPHOSES BOOK 10, TRANSLATED BY BROOKES MORE ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE [1] Veiled in a saffron mantle, through the air unmeasured, after the strange wedding, Hymen departed swiftly for Ciconian land; regardless and not listening to the voice of tuneful Orpheus. When people criticized Sandys back in the day, the usual line was that his Ovid shows the dangers of the word-for-word approach to translation. The passage I selected (Metamorphoses I: 293–308) is not representative of the book as a whole. the lion and the tiger fierce were borne upon the deep. To facilitate online searches the E-Text-hosted index itself is now minus diacritical markings. METAMORPHOSES BOOK 11, TRANSLATED BY BROOKES MORE DEATH OF ORPHEUS [1] While with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him; Ciconian matrons, with their raving breasts concealed in skins of forest animals, from the summit of a hill observed him there, attuning love songs to a sounding harp. the sea-calf now his ugly body lays. But you know what? The prose version had “dolphins took possession of the woods, and dashed against high branches, shaking the oak trees as they knocked against them.” Surely that’s too good to chuck. Note that I am here (and everywhere) modernizing the shit out of the spelling and punctuation, basically adjusting any piece of mechanics that might interfere with your being able to sight-read the meter: Some climbèd up to tops of hills, and some rowed to and fro and tigers tread the waves. It reads like poetry and is dynamic in its pace never missing a beat - a great piece of translation. On referring to Mr. Bohn’s excellent Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Classics and their Translations, we find that the whole of the work has been twice translated into English Prose, while five translations in Verse are there enumerated. One over corn and tops of towns, whom waves did overwhelm, One takes a hill; one in a boat deplores, There are many competent and workmanlike modern English translations of Ovid, but his tone is incredibly difficult to capture, and translators generally (and understandably) fail to convey its peculiar magic. The Text is fully hyper-linked to the Mythological index and vice versa; three or four spot-omissions are now mended thanks to Mark Nodine's notes. this from high elms entangled fishes hales. And the poet is having a good time describing the upside-down world, where everything is underwater. the nymphs admire. One of the main objections voiced against the above is padding. Metamorphoses has been divided into the following sections: Book the First [79k] Book the Second [81k] Book the Third [66k] Book the Fourth [85k] Book the Fifth [76k] Book the Sixth [83k] His second book is Try Never. There’s eight of those little guys up there, not one of ’em good (“did go” instead of “went”; “did feed” instead of “fed” and so on). All you need to know is that Ovid is describing a Flood, capital F. It’s a punishment, like in the book of Genesis. Dryden wrote “Absalom and Achitophel.” We could spend all day on this kind of thing. I agree it is brilliant. avail the hart, nor wounding tusks the boar. in mare lassatis volucris vaga decidit alis. The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. Down long halls, under the wavering light. tags: birthday. All right, let’s do this as a speed round. The dolphins “chase about the boughs.” The “tigers tread the waves.” But you also find a lot of bloody awkward (now not grim) haling of entangled fishes. I am trying to find out what english translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses to read. Next on my list is Ovid's Metamorphoses, but there doesn't seem to be a consensus on translation. the monsters of the deep now take their place. Myrmidons, Procris), (Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon crura nec ablato prosunt velocia cervo, I'd like to ask: Which verse translation of the Metamorphoses should I read first? Greece and the Aegean), (Chaos, Four Ages, Flood, Daphne, Io, Syrinx, In short, “Bye-bye, elegance.”. Just for shits and giggles, here’s an image of the above passage as it appears in a facsimile of the 1518 annotated Latin version. We’re just gonna do a simple little comparison. Ovid also mattered, of course, to Shakespeare, and critics such as Jonathan Bate and A. Arthur Golding, The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman, A work very pleasaunt and delectable, 1567. - A.D. 17) has, over the centuries, been the most popular and influential work from our classical tradition. God reduces Chaos into order. Through submerged gardens, faithfully replicate the author’s faults? Wolves swam among the flocks, and the waves supported tawny lions, and tigers too. At times it happened that they dropped anchor in green meadows, sometimes the curved keels grazed vineyards that lay beneath them. Dryden is the father of English criticism. "Um, very witty, but in Latin, liked sex, the Metamorphoses is all about people being changed into trees etc, Ted Hughes translated him 10 years … and wond’ring dolphins o’er the palace glide. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book I (Fable. and ships the underlying vineyards hide. Where mountain-loving goats did lately graze, "Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. doth sail in ship; another sits a fishing in an elm. Join the writers and staff of The Paris Review at our next event. It’s not even a translation, but good is good and a good note to end on: The Nereids roam astounded The Pierides), (Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas), (Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, But it may be like Ovid's. The Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. ille supra segetes aut mersae culmina villae Each Book is arranged in paragraphs, with each paragraph headed Also, it doesn’t require a lot of explanation. the yellow lion wanders in the deep. Hunting their prey into oak trees, they shake out acorns Sign up for the Paris Review newsletter and keep up with news, parties, readings, and more. And where but t’other day before did feed the hungry goat, The lion (now not grim) That’s some A#1 poetry, right there. Fact: there were, between 1550 and 1750, exactly three supremo-supremo English versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Water nymphs can suddenly go up to the front door and knock. Instead, what I want is to put you in a position to judge between these guys’ versions. That’s the way it goes with narrative poetry. This is, in my opinion, the best translation of this classic. Lions, tigers, wolves, all dog-paddling. Forward momentum takes precedence over everything, and so passages like the one I’m about to quote are always gonna be exceptional.
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