Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN: 019283472X / Publisher: Oxford University Press, July 1998
Tells the stories of Theseus, Nessus, Hercules, Orpheus, Adonis, Morpheus, and Aeneas
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Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.
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