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Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses was the first major English version and brought Ovid to ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The 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 mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful and tactile cloth.Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
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Category: Everyman Classics
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
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