num_pages: 576
description: This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed―often by love―into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
language: English
title: Ovid's Metamorphoses
titlecomplete: Ovid's Metamorphoses
characters: Orpheus, Juno (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Ares (god), Aeneas, Venus (goddess), Pan (Greek), Hermes, Minerva, Apollo (Greek god), Odysseus, Hero (mythology), Leander (mythology), Mercury, Hermaphroditus, Perseus, Heracles, Ixion
genres: Mythology, Philosophy, School, Greek Mythology, Poetry, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Ancient
ratings_count: 69051
places: Ancient mythological world
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press