The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII
The Metamorphoses is Ovid's poem of transformations, some two hundred and fifty myths woven into a continuous history of the world from the creation to his own day. This volume contains the first seven of its fifteen books: the four ages, the flood, Apollo and Daphne, Io, Phaethon's disastrous ride in the sun's chariot, Europa, Cadmus and the founding of Thebes, Actaeon, Narcissus and Echo, Pyramus and Thisbe, Perseus and Andromeda, the rape of Proserpine, Arachne, Niobe, Procne and Philomela, Jason and Medea. Henry T. Riley's prose translation, first published in 1851, is literal and heavily annotated, with a synopsis of each book, and it has long served readers who want to know exactly what Ovid says. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first book free.
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