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Title	:	Metamorphoses
Author	:	Ovid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 723 pages
Published	:	August 3rd 2004 by Penguin (first published 8)
Categories	:	Classics. Poetry. Fantasy. Mythology. Fiction

Metamorphoses

Ovid

Paperback | Pages: 723 pages

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Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes, using contemporary idiom to bring today's reader all the ageless drama and psychological truths vividly intact. --From the book jacket

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Original Title:	Metamorphōseōn librī
ISBN:	014044789X (ISBN13: 9780140447897)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Odysseus, Venus (Goddess), Ares (god), Perseus, Jupiter (God), Orpheus, Aeneas, Minerva, Juno, Hermaphroditus, Ixion, Pan (Greek), Hermes, Heracles, Mercury, Apollo (Greek god), Hero (mythology), Leander (mythology)
Setting:	Ancient mythological world
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Poetry (1994), Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2004)

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The great thing about Ovid's Metamorphoses is that it doesn't force you to take it so seriously. Its still remarkably vivid, considering its age, and there is hardly a dull moment in it. You can actually read it just for pure pleasure. Its wild stories about transformations from one shape to another can be so entertaining, that your first reaction in reading it probably won't be to ask yourself weighty questions like "Hmm, I wonder what insights this ancient book offers into the structure of the

This book should be an absolute delight to anyone interested in European literature or art. Written in the first century AD it represents the first effort to anthologize Greek mythology and integrate the whole into the history of the Roman empire. I only regret that as undergraduate I never took a course with this work on the program.Having read the Metamorphoses without the benefit a classics professor to guide me I am quite glad that it was not the first collection of Greek myths that I read.

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1000. Metamorphōseōn librī = The Metamorphoses = Books of Transformations, OvidThe Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 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 mythic-historical framework.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و نهم ژانویه سال 2014 میلادیعنوان: افسانههای دگردیسی اوید اثر: پوبلیوس اویدیوس نسو برگردان: میرجلال

I'm re-reading this from bits I consumed throughout my youf as a mythology dork, but the use of Roman names rather than their Greek equivalents requires a lot of stopping and re-referencing to figure out who the F. is being discussed. My Roman numerals suck too, since we're on the subject. Anyway, I decided to restart this in conjunction with reading Venus in Furs because that novel brought to mind the Pygmalion myth, which brings to mind The Sea Came in at Midnight, and somehow these all

Gods and their love affairs. Gods and their love affairs with mortals. Fate, covetousness, allegiance, brutalities, treachery and chastisements metamorphosing from the cocoon of mighty love. The discordant waves of love dangerously destabilizing romantic notions; overwhelming morality and raison d'être of Gods and mortals alike. Ovid makes you want to write intense poetry and feel affectionate to the idea of love as a device of alteration for better or worse. Love does not conquer all; it

I bought this copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses when I was living in Rome. It's the book I was reading on the plane when I left Rome, as the realization sunk in that an awesome and strange adventure was drawing to a close, and it's the book I was still reading when I moved back to Minneapolis and attempted to readjust to life as a Midwestern college undergrad.I was reading Metamorphoses at the cafe a few blocks away from my apartment when a strange man gave me that little terror of a kitten, Monster.