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  • Revenge, murder, romance - who would've thought the Romans were this entertaining? Ovid's recounting of popular Greek and Roman myths, focusing on the theme of (what else?) metamorphosis is not only beautifully wrought, but also funny and intriguing.

    For anyone who thinks classical literature ... Continue

    Revenge, murder, romance - who would've thought the Romans were this entertaining? Ovid's recounting of popular Greek and Roman myths, focusing on the theme of (what else?) metamorphosis is not only beautifully wrought, but also funny and intriguing.

    For anyone who thinks classical literature is stuffy or boring, a dose of Ovid will turn your preconception on its head and make you a devotee of classical poetry forever!

    

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At the center of The Metamorphoses, a work thought by many to be the wittiest poem by the wittiest author of antiquity, lies the theme of change and transformation. Composed of a series of kaleidoscopic narratives in which human and divine characters meet with paradoxical and always arbitrary
fates, The Metamorphoses is alternately humorous, pathetic and bizarre, but always surprising and entertaining. A. D. Melville's translation admirably reproduces the grace and fluidity of Ovid's style, with the subtle addition, for occasional special effect, of rhyming couplets to the traditional
blank verse form.

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