Bibliograph

The metamorphoses:, selected stories in verse, Ovid

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The metamorphoses:, selected stories in verse, Ovid

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The metamorphoses:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Ovid

Series statement

Dover thrift edition

Sub title

selected stories in verse

Summary

For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals of classical mythology: Venus and Adonis, Pygmalion, Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus, Perseus and Andromeda, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Cyclops, and Circe, among others

Target audience

adult

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