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".

The characters of these myths are transformed into flowers and animals depending on the mood of the gods what would you be turned into?TreeTops Greatest Stories is a series of timeless classics for children aged 711. Its much-loved stories, beautiful artwork and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.