Don't show me this again
My Basket
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos 
Read Ingo Gildenhard's take on the importance of Open Access publishing on our 
The most impressive contribution this volume provides is the first-rate commentary. Gildenhard and Zissos' expertise in Ovidian studies is evident on every page, as they masterfully lead learners through the complexities of the Metamorphoses...Moreover, the detailed commentary is punctuated with numerous helpful charts, diagrams, and pictures that further aid learners in their study. Likewise, the introductory essays are ideal for students on both the secondary and postsecondary levels.
—Dr Bartolo Natoli, The Classical Outlook 92:4 (2017), 135-136
This book is well suited to intermediate Latin classes or as a short unit for the advanced level. I would also recommend this text to students at the intermediate or advanced level who wish to practice the language on their own, since the commentary is detailed enough to answer most questions that students at these levels would have. The free online edition (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) lends itself well to this use.
—Professor Adrienne Hagen, Washington and Lee University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. 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. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. 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.
The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', 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.
This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos | September 2016
260 | 8 colour illustrations | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)
Classics Textbooks, vol. 5 | ISSN: 2054-2437 (Print) | 2054-2445 (Online)
ISBN Paperback: 9781783740826
ISBN Hardback: 9781783740833
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783740840
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783740857
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783740864
ISBN Digital (XML): 9781783746262
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0073
BIC subject codes: DB (Classical texts), DCF (Poetry by individual poets), CFP (Translation and interpretation)
You may also be interested in:
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Symbols and Terms
Reference Works
Grammatical Terms
Ancient Literature
Introduction
1. Ovid and His Times
2. Ovid’s Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic
3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum
3a. Genre Matters
3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales
3c. A Universal History
3d. Anthropological Epic
3e. A Reader’s Digest of Greek and Latin Literature
4. Ovid’s Theban Narrative
5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus
5a. Sources and Intertexts
5b. The Personnel of the Set Text
6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture
Text
Commentary
511–26: Tiresias’ Warning to Pentheus
527–71: Pentheus’ Rejection of Bacchus
531–63: Pentheus’ Speech
572–691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale
692–733: Pentheus’ Gruesome Demise
Appendices
1. Versification
2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures
Bibliography
© 2016 Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information:
Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos, Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511–733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0073
Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information:
Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos, Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511–733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0073
Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher.