Jupiter kidnaps the girl Europa.īook 3: Europa’s brother Cadmus settles in the land Boeotia. Mercury also falls for the woman Herse, then turns her jealous sister Aglauros into stone. Mercury punishes the mortal man Battus for his betrayal. Ocyrhoe, the centaur Chiron’s daughter, transforms into a horse. The god Jupiter attacks Callisto, and the god Apollo turns the raven black as punishment. īook 2: Phaethon’s pride is his downfall. Daphne and Io suffer at the hands of gods. After a great flood, two humans-Deucalion and Pyrrha-repopulate the earth. In the beginning the universe is chaos, but then one god creates humankind. This guide also discusses some potentially triggering topics, including violence, sexual violence, death, suicide, cannibalism, and enslavement.īook 1: Ovid begins by invoking the gods. This guide follows Melville’s divisions of the various myths, although not all editions will make such divisions. Melville’s 1986 translation for Oxford World’s Classics, and citations reference page numbers rather than line numbers. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain.This guide follows A. The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. The closest thing to a central character is love itself-a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world-from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. Synopsis: Ovid’s famous mock epic-a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity-is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum.
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