Dear Reader,
Every other month I feature a Penguin Classics title for you to sample. Classics are timeless books. Many people feel each one depicts powerful life situations and lessons, that they deserve a special place on the bookshelf and in our hearts.
This month's Penguin Classics is Metamorphosis by Ovid, a sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn.
(Notes from the publisher)
In Metamorphoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
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Suzanne Beecher
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