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The Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses: Selected Stories in Verse | Ovid
For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals of classical mythology: Venus and Adonis, Pygmalion, Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus, Perseus and Andromeda, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Cyclops, and Circe, among others.
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Leftcoastzen
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Every time I find old Penguins or Pelicans in a thrift store I cannot resist!

Palimpsest ❤️ 3y
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Thanks @NeedsMoreBooks for the tag 🏷 📖The tagged book. A reread from my college days. 📖I read The Little Prince in French when I was in HS. But today, I wouldn‘t be able to. My French is too rusty. Tagging anyone who hasn‘t played yet! #Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 👍😊 5y
NeedsMoreBooks Thank you for playing! Enjoyed The Metamorphoses 🦗 5y
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Day 3 #mythology #aprilbookshowers I remember enjoying this book in one of my university courses and hope to reread it someday.

writerlibrarian Perfect choice👍🏻 8y
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Good read. Was able to increase my awareness of mythology significantly.