Overview
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
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841593586
- | ISBN-10: 1841593583
