# Metamorphoses

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- Book: [Metamorphoses](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid/metamorphoses) ([Metamorphoses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid/metamorphoses.md))
- Authors: [Ovid](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-789-7
- Pages: 768
- Published: 2004-01-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrative to flow - pulling the reader along with it.