Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)

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. 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 but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-25-2009; Read lots of the myths in college; Loved it! Especially Dionysus and the Zeus myths. A lot of sexual stuff in it. Those early cultures had no shame!; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-01-2009; A Book Worthy of Patience; This is a lovely compendium of myths, legends, and flattery by arguably the best writer of the ancient world, and is considered one of the three canonical Roman poets, including Virgil and Horace. The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a huge...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-18-2008; OVID; This is one of the most important and influential works of Western civilization. Kindle edition will please both casual readers of the work and scholars looking to get a little more in-depth.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-11-2008; I am a changed man after reading Ovid; I confess that reading Ovid's Metamorphoses has left me a changed man. His focus on transformation parables of ancient myths taught me quite a bit about change. I was intrigued by how often unwanted change was unwillingly created by...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-25-2009; Read lots of the myths in college; Loved it! Especially Dionysus and the Zeus myths. A lot of sexual stuff in it. Those early cultures had no shame!; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-20-2008; Translator clarification; In case you were wondering, the translators are multiple: the neoclassical British authors Dryden, Addison, and Pope.; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-15-2007; Hobbled by bad book design; It's not like designers at Penguin Classics are lacking the knowledgeOf how to handle hexameters. Why then their failure to use itIn Raeburn's recent translation of Metamorphoses?On an average page, there's barely...; read full review | report as inappropriate