OVID | METAMORPHOSES - Greek and Roman Classics

OVID | METAMORPHOSES
(Authoritative and Unabridged Edition KOBO EBOOK)

ALL 15 BOOKS IN A SINGLE EBOOK VOLUME!

The Masterpiece of Latin Poetry in their Definitive English Translations [COMPLETE]

(Inspiration for Shakespeare)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Metamorphoses ("transformations") is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature. One of the most-read of all classical works during the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses continues to exert a profound influence on Western culture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Book I: Cosmogony, Ages of Man, Gigantes, Daphne, Io;
2. Book II: Phaëton, Callisto, Jupiter and Europa;
3. Book III: Cadmus, Actaeon, Echo, Narcissus, and Pentheus;
4. Book IV: Pyramus and Thisbe, Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Perseus and Andromeda.
5. Book V: Phineus, the Rape of Proserpina;
6. Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Philomela and Procne;
7. Book VII: Medea, Cephalus and Procris;
8. Book VIII: Nisos and Scylla, Daedalus and Icarus, Baucis and Philemon;
9. Book IX: Heracles, Byblis;
10. Book X: Eurydice, Hyacinth, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Adonis, Atalanta, Cyparissus;
11. Book XI: Orpheus, Midas, Alcyone and Ceyx, Aesacus;
12. Book XII: Iphigeneia, Centaurs, Achilles;
13. Book XIII: the Sack of Troy, Aeneas;
14. Book XIV: Scylla, Aeneas, Romulus;
15. Book XV: Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Aesculapius, Caesar.

ABOUT  OVID

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature.

The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.