Ovid: Metamorphoses / Edition 1

by Ovid

Overview

This cohesive collection of stories from Greek and Roman mythology recounts tales of recorded transformations. Comprised of over fifty stories, it chronicles the legends of King Midus, Daedalus, Icarus, Hercules, and the Trojan War, making this the definitive work of classical mythology.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900865160407
Publisher:	Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/1988
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	Latin

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Acknowledgments	xxv
	A Note on this Translation	3
Book I	The Shaping of Changes	13
Book II	Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts	49
Book III	The Wrath of Juno	89
Book IV	Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales	121
Book V	Contests of Arms and Song	157
Book VI	Of Praise and Punishment	187
Book VII	Of the Ties That Bind	221
Book VIII	Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives	261
Book IX	Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries	301
Book X	The Songs of Orpheus	339
Book XI	Rome Begins at Troy	367
Book XII	Around and About the Iliad	405
Book XIII	Spoils of War and Pangs of Love	435
Book XIV	Around and about with Aeneas	479
Book XV	Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams	519
	Notes	555
	Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses	577