Metamorphoses
Subtitle: A New Translation by Charles Martin
Contributors: Charles Martin (Translator); Bernard Knox (Introduction)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780393058109
First sentence: Publius Ovidius Naso (the last name, "Nose," was a family inheritance from an ancestor who presumably had a big one), though admired by Shakespeare, was distrusted in the nineteenth century as an immoralist and dismissed for most of the twentieth as a lightweight, but is now back in favor.