Ovid's Metamorphoses

<p><em>Ovid’s Metamorphoses</em> is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.</p><p>The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic <i>Metamorphoses</i> into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods.</p><p>Each chapter contains:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>a Latin passage adapted from the epic</li> <p> </p> <li>an accompanying vocabulary list</li> <p> </p> <li>a short commentary to help with translation</li> <p> </p> <li>a concise review of the specific grammar covered</li> <p> </p> <li>a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem, or featured myth.</li> </ul><p>Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level, <i>Ovid’s Metamorphoses</i> is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions, this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece, allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose, and offers opportunities for literary discussion.</p><p>Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award. </p> <p>1 Creation begins: (Met. 1.5–150)</p><p>First declension; first conjugation present indicative active; present indicative of esse </p><p>2 Creation continues: (Met. 1.5–150) </p><p>Second declension masculine; second declension neuter </p><p>3 Lycaon: (Met. 1.163–252) </p><p>Second conjugation present indicative active </p><p>4 Deucalion and Pyrrha: (Met. 1.313–415) </p><p>Third declension masculine/feminine; third declension neuter; third declension i-stem masculine/feminine; third declension i-stem neuter </p><p>5 Apollo and Python: (Met. 1.416–451) </p><p>Third conjugation present indicative active; third conjugation -io present indicative active </p><p>6 Apollo and Daphne: (Met. 1.452–567) </p><p>Imperfect indicative active </p><p>7 Phaethon: (Met. 2.1–400) </p><p>Future indicative active </p><p>8 Cadmus and the founding of Thebes: (Met. 3.1–137) <i>Third declension masculine/feminine adjectives; third declension neuter adjectives </i></p><p>9 Actaeon: (Met. 3.138–252) </p><p>Fourth declension masculine/feminine; fourth declension neuter </p><p>10 Semele: (Met. 3.253–315) </p><p>Fourth conjugation </p><p>11 Tiresias: (Met. 3.316–38) </p><p>Demonstratives </p><p>12 Bacchus and Pentheus: (Met. 3.511–733) </p><p>Perfect indicative active </p><p>13 Mars and Venus: (Met. 4.167–89) </p><p>Pluperfect indicative active; future perfect indicative active </p><p>14 Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: (Met. 4.274–388) </p><p>Fifth declension </p><p>15 The transformation of Cadmus: (Met. 4.563–603) </p><p>Relative clauses; relative pronoun </p><p>16 Perseus and Atlas: (Met. 4.604–62) </p><p>Passive verb forms </p><p>17 Perseus and Andromeda: (Met. 4.663–803) </p><p>Infinitives; indirect statement </p><p>18 The rape of Proserpina: (Met. 5.346–571) </p><p>Participles </p><p>19 Arachne and Minerva: (Met. 6.1–145) </p><p>Ablative absolute </p><p>20 Niobe: (Met. 6.146–312) </p><p>Present subjunctive; jussive subjunctive </p><p>21 Tereus, Procne, and Philomela: (Met. 6.401–674) </p><p>Imperfect subjunctive; fear clauses </p><p>22 Boreas and Orithyia: (Met. 6.675–721) </p><p>Deponent verbs; participles of deponent verbs </p><p>23 Medea’s rejuvenation of Aeson: (Met. 7.159–293) </p><p>Purpose clauses </p><p>24 Medea’s punishment of Pelias: (Met. 7.294–349) </p><p>Perfect subjunctive; result clauses </p><p>25 Scylla and Nisus: (Met. 8.1–151) </p><p>Jussive noun clauses </p><p>26 Pomona and Vertumnus: (Met. 14.623–771) </p><p>Pluperfect subjunctive; conditions </p><p>27 Quirinus: (Met. 14.805–51) </p><p>Cum clauses </p><p>28 Cipus: (Met. 15.547–621) </p><p>Relative clauses of characteristic </p><p>29 Aesculapius: (Met. 15.622–744) </p><p>Indirect question </p><p>30 The apotheosis of Caesar: (Met. 15.745–870) </p><p>Gerunds and gerundives </p>