num_pages: 126
description: This selection of 30 stories from Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals of classical mythology: Venus and Adonis, Pygmalion, Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus, more.
language: English
title: The Metamorphoses
titlecomplete: The Metamorphoses
characters: Apollo (Greek god), Juno (Goddess), Aeneas, Pan (Greek), Jupiter (God), Ixion, Heracles, Minerva, Ares (god), Perseus, Mercury, Leander (mythology), Venus (goddess), Odysseus, Hero (mythology), Hermes, Orpheus, Hermaphroditus
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Mythology, Ancient, Philosophy, Fiction, Poetry, Greek Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 69059
places: Ancient mythological world
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Dover Publications