num_pages: 528
description: 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.
language: English
title: Metamorphoses
titlecomplete: Metamorphoses (The World's Classics)
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: 69053
places: Ancient mythological world
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Oxford University Press