Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem written in Latin, composed of fifteen books, which explores the theme of transformation and change. The narrative follows a chronological order, beginning with the world's creation and ending with the reign of Julius Caesar. Ovid retells traditional Greek and Roman myths, focusing on the transformations of gods, heroes, and mortals as they undergo physical, emotional, and psychological changes that reflect the complexities of the human experien...

'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and 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 extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known ...

"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."—Washington PostOvid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveli...

Henry T. Riley's prose translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books VIII–XV, opens a vivid gateway into a world where myth, history, and transformation are inseparable. From Theseus, Dædalus, and Orpheus to the fall of Troy, the founding of Rome, and the death of Julius Caesar, the poem unfolds as both a literary masterpiece and a vast treasury of ancient learning. Riley presents it as a richly annotated guide to Greek and Roman tradition, customs, and belief. His version is also a defense o...

"Metamorphoses" is a narrative poem written by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, completed in AD 8. The work is a collection of myths and legends from Greek and Roman mythology, told in a chronological sequence from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar.The title "Metamorphoses" refers to the central theme of the work, which is transformation. Ovid's poems explore the ways in which gods and mortals can transform into different beings, objects, or natural phenomena. The p...

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Ovid's The Remedy of Love turns the poet of desire into a sharp-eyed physician of passion, addressing Cupid and the afflicted with wit, urgency, and moral force. Rather than glorifying romance, it treats obsessive love as a malady that can lead to despair, self-destruction, and emotional ruin, and promises relief through discipline, self-knowledge, and timely action. The speaker urges lovers to act before desire hardens, to withdraw gradually, and to avoid places, people, and habits that r...

Ovid's Metamorphoses opens with a sweeping vision of creation, tracing the world's emergence from primordial chaos into the ordered cosmos of earth, sea, sky, and stars. From that divine shaping comes humanity itself, and with it the poem's great moral arc: the innocent ages of gold and silver give way to brass and iron, as greed, violence, and impiety spread until Jupiter resolves to destroy the corrupt race. That judgment arrives in the great flood, which drowns the world and leaves only...

Ovid's The Amores begins with a witty, self-aware surrender to love, as Cupid interrupts the poet's epic ambitions and forces him into elegiac verse. From the first poems, desire is triumphant, intimate, and comic, yet also painful: the speaker is Cupid's captive, begging for reciprocity from his mistress while promising loyalty, constancy, and poetic immortality. He circles through jealousy, longing, and resentment, lamenting secret betrayals, the exposure of private passion through his o...

Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political manifesto which derides Augustus' attempts to control his subjects by imposing his own mythol...

The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid’s classic.A Penguin Classic HardcoverOvid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about ...

The Metamorphoses consists of fifteen books and over 250 myths. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.