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Metamorphosis: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) Book

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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    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.

  • 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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