Metamorphoses (Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO info@harvardup.co.uk) (Classical Texts) (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))

by Ovid

David Raeburn (Translator), Denis Feeney (Introduction), and Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)

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Ovid’s deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition
 
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poetry 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. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite...Read more
  • ISBN10 0141394617
  • ISBN13 9780141394619
  • Publish Date 17 May 2016 (first published 1 January 1916)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics