Metamorphoses

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by Ovid,

Translated by Charles Martin,

Introduction by Bernard Knox

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published January 2005, 624 pages, paper

ISBN 039332642X

New in paper (S05)

Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. In this new, long-anticipated translation of Metamorphoses, Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original.