ovid: reading schedule for june

We have two chats planned for June about the works of the poet Ovid (Wikipedia, handle with care).  With the limited time we have, I think it's best to concentrate on his two major works:

June 4	The Metamorphoses the creation and history of the world
June 11	(optional) other works*
June 18	Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) plus Amores, Remedia Amoris?

*If anyone wishes to discuss the other works, I offer another chat in between, on June 11. I'm especially interested in the poems and letters from exile (Tristia, Ex Ponto, Ibis).  And there are also the Fasti.

All A.S. Kline translations (in NOTES on this blog)
There are other online translations available.
Google books of and about Ovid.

In print: Ovid

• Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin, W. W. Norton & Company
• Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) David Raeburn, Translator
• The Metamorphoses (Signet Classics) Horace Gregory, Translator
• The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)  James Michie, Translator
• The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) Peter Green, Translator
  (All erotic poems:  The Amores, The Art of Love, Cures of Love, On Facial Treatment for Ladies)
• Fasti (Penguin Classics)
• The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

Then there are the Loeb's editions which are not all in print right now, but which you might find in your public library.

         

                

Comments

[bingley]

Penguin classics also has a modernised version of Arthur Golding's 1567 translation, which can also be found online in a version closer to the Elizabethan English.

One of my local bookshops had both the Penguin Classics Golding translation and the Charles Martin translation mentioned by Irene. I dithered quite a bit but chose the Charles Martin translation in the end.