# The Metamorphoses

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- Book: [The Metamorphoses](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid/the-metamorphoses) ([The Metamorphoses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid/the-metamorphoses.md))
- Authors: [Ovid](https://www.bookquiver.com/ovid)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-358-6
- Pages: 568
- Published: 2013-10-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid’s sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet’s own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love. Frequently translated, imitated and paraphrased.