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  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141906256
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768

Metamorphoses

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

“The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year”- Emily Wilson

The first female translator of the epic into English verse in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid’s classic.

A Penguin Classic

Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.

  • Published: 14 April 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141906256
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768

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