One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love. Frequently translated, imitated and paraphrased.
| ISBN: | 9781841593586 |
| Publication date: | 25th October 2013 |
| Author: | Ovid |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 568 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
Ancient, classical and medieval texts Poetry by individual poets Fiction in translation |