Name: Metamorphosis by Ovid
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Metamorphosis by Ovid

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Author: Ovid

Latin

Published on 30 August 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
199 x 131 x 21 | 276g

Mary Innes’s classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order: animals turn to stone; men and women become trees and stars. Ovid himself transformed the art of storytelling, infusing these stories with new life through his subtley, humour and understanding of human nature, and elegantly tailoring tone and pace to fit a variety of subjects. The result is a lasting treasure-house of myth and legend. ‘The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect i

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