The Metamorphoses

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. 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.

• | Author: Ovid, Allen Mandelbaum
• | Publisher: Everyman
• | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2013
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781841593586
• | ISBN-10: 1841593583