Ceritanya terus bergulir dengan pergantian tokoh yang bisa dibilang terlalu cepat. Namun dalam The Fall of Icarus, cerita tidak berhenti di situ saja. Meninggalkan duka mendalam di hati ayahnya. Ikarus terbang terlalu tinggi hingga melelehkan perekat di sayapnya. Kisah tentang bagaimana Ikarus "terjun bebas" dari udara sepertinya sudah menjadi bacaan awam. Here is a story which will convince you." "The power of heaven is measureless, and knows no bounds whatever the gods wish is at once achieved. I read in English but this review is written in Bahasa Indonesia Every time I read this story it kills me.įor my review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of Ovid's full Metamorphosis, go here. We are tragically bound, however, to the gravity of the Earth and the weight of our own hubris. We are driven to scale unclimbed heights. The story of Daedalus and Icarus seems to capture a very universal story. His stories certainly contain the Gods, but Ovid, to me, seems more interested in the frailties of mankind. His myths are layered, heroic, but also funny, while at the same time overflowing with pathos and pride. This selection of Ovid's Metamorphoses contains Mary Innes's translations of books XIII and IX. Vol N° 73 of my Penguin Little Black Classics Box Set. Minos may possess all the rest, but he does not possess the air.” “The king may block my way by land or across the ocean, but the sky, surely, is open, and that is how we shall go. No doubt it will take me several months to get through all of them! Hopefully I will find some classic authors, from across the ages, that I may not have come across had I not bought this collection. I shall post a short review after reading each one. I couldn’t help it they looked so good that I went and bought them all. The Little Black Classic Collection by penguin looks like it contains lots of hidden gems. Even enough to order a full copy of Metamorphoses, a lovely penguin clothbound I may add, which I look forward to reading in its full form. However, I did really enjoy reading the rest of the Greek myths. This would more aptly be named something like: “Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” This is because it reads like a series of Tales that only just seem to fit together. I’m not entirely sure if that is the same as the full work but, I have my doubts. In spite of this, only three pages of this edition actually concern Icarus’s demise. Icarus moved his bare arms up and down, but without their feathers they had no purchase in the air." The fall of Icarus is a message that everybody knows, and for good reason. It is a motif that resonates across the ages and has influenced other works of literature ( Doctor Faustus) and even modern day television ( Breaking Bad). The fall of Icarus has long been an allegory for what happens if man overextends his reach it has been a message that tells us that we all have our limits. He wrote a lost tragedy, Medea, and mentions that some of his other works were adapted for staged performance. His shorter works include the Remedia Amoris ("Cure for Love"), the curse-poem Ibis, and an advice poem on women's cosmetics. Ovid's prolific poetry includes the Heroides, a collection of verse epistles written as by mythological heroines to the lovers who abandoned them the Fasti, an incomplete six-book exploration of Roman religion with a calendar structure and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of elegies in the form of complaining letters from his exile. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE – CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love").
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