Bøker av Ovid

This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduatestudents an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, oftensad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses." The brief introduction places the book in its ancient context. Notes aid comprehension of the Latin and a vocabulary is included.

Written between AD 2 and 8, Ovid's poem, the "Metamorphoses", gave a great number of Greek and Roman myths the form in which they are known today. Slavitt, translator of "Ovid's Poetry of Exile", offers a new English verse translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses".