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  • Auteur(s): Ovid
  • Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
  • Durée: 16 h et 11 min
  • 4,1 out of 5 stars (9 évaluations)

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The Metamorphoses

Auteur(s): Ovid
Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
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An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends, seamlessly moving from one story to another in a splendid panorama of savage beauty, charm, and wit. It marked the first attempt to link all of the Homeric and pre-Homeric myths into a single work and to carry the entire chronology into the Roman pantheon. All of the gods and heroes familiar to us are represented. Such familiar legends as Hercules, Perseus and Medusa, Daedelus and Icarus, Diana and Actaeon, and many others, are breathtakingly recreated.

Ovid was probably the most popular of all the Roman poets during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and his verse was the inspiration for countless artistic and literary masterpieces of the time. Shakespeare, Bernini, and Rubens were only a few of those who mined his work to extraordinary effect.

Ovid has left mankind a magnificent achievement, and his sparkling poetry is a tour de force of Homeric and Roman myth. As Ovid himself wrote: "As long as Rome is the eternal city, these lines shall echo from the lips of men."

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A Tale as Old as Time

I know it's wrong to judge and criticize a piece of art or literature without taking into account the context in which it was written, and so, I will play by my own rules. Ovid's Metamorphosis is a expansive piece of poetry that details the misbehaving of all the gods and does so in a powerful way. The in and outs and gossip surrounding all the lives of Greece's myths is enthralling, detailed, and quite well written.

Charlton Griffin gives great gravitas to all the stories. If you're a classics fan, this is certainly one you won't want to miss.

That being said, oh my gods I am so happy to be finished reading this glorified rape list.

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great

Good to do menial labor and listen too. It is how they related ideas in the past: through speaking more than reading or writing.

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excellent narration

the narrator did his best as usual... but Ovid's writing style segways without warning... causing much confusion and frequent rewinding/back tracking.

I began this book as part of my Classical Greek myth self education... and it was worth it...

I'm not sure if any other narrator could have guided the listener through without much struggle

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  • waxnwane
  • 2021-11-14

Excellent!

Wonderful narration bring the masterpiece of Ovid to life. I have taken a star off because unfortunately some of the Greek heros and gods’ names are consistently mispronounced. Otherwise this is thrilling and enjoyable.

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  • IPEVOINC
  • 2013-05-24

Not that translation mentioned in Amazon reviews

I think this source of audio book was translated by Horace Gregory, link as follow:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Metamorphoses-ebook/dp/B00328ZUO8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369420126&sr=1-1&keywords=horace+gregory

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  • Mark
  • 2012-02-21

Caviar to the general?

A few negative (almost scathing) reviews of this recording gave me pause before I clicked to purchase, but I am so glad I ultimately ignored this (very bad) advice. This recording is a true gem. It is a GORGEOUS translation wonderfully read. I listened to the whole thing through twice in a row, and will surely revisit it soon. But first, onto Mr. Griffin's reading of Horace ... can't wait!

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  • Tim Kane
  • 2007-06-24

Excellent Myth Overview

I'm big mythology fan and this poem fit the bill. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the text so I could read along. Ovid has some stunning tales. Many that I already knew, and some intriguing new ones. There is plenty of blood and gore. The only downside might be books 9-11 which can get a bit raunchy. Otherwise, this is a must for any myth buff.

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  • Darwin8u
  • 2014-08-13

Cha-cha-cha-Changes

Ovid -- the David Bowie of Latin literature. I chewed on this book of myth-poems the entire time I was tramping around Rome. I was looking for the right words to describe my feelings about it. It isn't that I didn't like it. It is an unequivocal masterpiece. I'm amazed by it. I see Ovid's genes in everything (paintings, sculptures, poems and prose). He is both modern and classic, reverent and wicked, lovely and obscene all at once. It is just hard to wrestle him down. To pin my thoughts about 'the Metamorphoses' into words. Structure really fails me.

That I guess is the sign for me of a book's depth or success with me. It makes me wish I could read it in the original form. I'm not satisfied with Dante in English. I want him in Italian. I'm not satisfied with Ovid in English. I want to experience his poetry, his playfulness, his wit in Latin.

I still prefer the poetry of Homer and Dante, but Ovid isn't embarrassed by the company of the greats; so not Zeus or Neptune, but maybe Apollo.

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  • Coach of Alva
  • 2014-01-23

Charlton Griffin's Metamorphoses

I listened to Charlton Griffin read an obscure translation of the Odyssey last year and came to love the poem after years of resistance. He excelled in that reading in conveying the voices of wily warriors and lowly peasants. Here he is reading a very different poet. He makes Ovid sound urbane, "cool," "hip." The poet wallowed in stories of emotional distress and extreme passion and deeds of bloods. Griffin tells these stories with relish. He doesn't create a vivid gallery of distinct characters the way Robert Whitfield did in his great reading of Don Quixote but he slip into Ovid's characters, men and women, in a quiet, smooth manner that doesn't call attention to itself, letting the hearer following along without any inconsistency of tone to jar him or her out of the story. If I got tired at times of the reading, it was because I listened to this long poem in a short time, instead of drawing it out and savoring it more. A fine performance.

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  • Ceectee
  • 2007-07-13

Disappointing

This audio book was very disappointing and the narrator presented the material in a boring manner. If mythology is your interest, check out
"Song on Bronze" by Nigel Spivey. That audiobook is excellent!

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  • brett
  • 2008-02-10

Solid

This is a solid well done production. The narration was very good. The central theme of this epic poem is "things that change" and this is the thread which interconnects all of the various tales. Its full of very colorful stories and loaded with fanciful creatures and all the gods are there. Loads of beautiful Nymphs hanging about in the glades and shores of quiet pools...

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  • Dirk
  • 2011-02-01

Dull Reading

I love Ovid. Ovid always gets 5 stars from me. And I'm sure Charlton Griffin is a wonderful person. Unfortunately, he can make the greatest and most interesting works of all of recorded time completely uninteresting and flat. He reads as though he's bored with what he's reading. His readings certainly bore me -- and I've given him several chances so that I have several audiobooks of great works that I'll never listen to. It's a shame that so many of the greatest works in western literature are only available with Charlton Griffin reading them. Now whole new generations are helped to conclude that the great literary works of out culture are boring.

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  • Dan
  • 2010-03-16

Werid pauses and skips mar good reading

The reading is mostly great but there are weird pauses and accelerations. Some of it sounds computer-generated. It goes great for a minute or two, then there are lines rendered like directory assistance. The rhythm of the poetry is ruined.

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  • Eve Howard
  • 2018-08-07

The Best of the Best

This is the version of the Greek myths that stuck, and for good reason. It's a delight and a wonder. It reads like a novel, feels like a romance, is full of anthropological surprises, defines nature, and introduces psychology, all against a backdrop of monumental action. Charlton Griffin is a masterful reader, who dramatizes these fabulous stories to perfection. The cataclysmic descriptions of creation, chaos, war and love, unfold like the most elaborately graphic CGI effects in the most spectacular epic ever filmed, that's how vivid this book is, with respect to the physical and supernatural world. As for the gods and goddesses - here's where the battle of the sexes began. In short, this Roman classic, penned by the poet who survived the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius - but not Nero, is a jewel for the ages.

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