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Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.Read More

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  • Foyles

    'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original.Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY

  • Play

    Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed often by love - into flowers trees stones and stars. This new verse translation in simple and swift English hexameters allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.

  • Penguin

    'Her soft white bosom was ringed in a layer of bark, her hair was turned into foliage, her arms into branches' Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings.

  • BookDepository

    Metamorphoses : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140447897 : 014044789X : 03 Aug 2004 : Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.

  • Blackwell

    Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and...

  • Pickabook

    Ovid, David Raeburn (Trans), Denis Feeney

  • 014044789X
  • 9780140447897
  • Ovid
  • 29 January 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 768
  • New Ed
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