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Metamorphosis (Penguin Black Classics)
₨ 640.00
Ovid begins the Metamorphoses by invoking the gods. He asks them to inspire his work, which opens with the creation of the world and continues on to the present day, and is about the transformation of bodies. After this short prayer, Ovid describes the birth of the world.
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture–the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid’s day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid’s ancient themes, using contemporary idiom to bring today’s reader all the ageless drama and psychological truths vividly intact.
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