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A review by amandar9fa2f
Metamorphoses by Ovid
3.0
The Roman myths of transformation in hexameter verse.
Taken as a collection of short stories, this has the same strengths and weaknesses of all collections. Some good, some not so. But, oh, when it is good, as in Phaethon pleading with his father, Phoebus/Apollo, to drive the Sun God’s chariot across the sky, it is divine.
This translation by David Raeburn is contemporary and accessible. Lovely to dip into or read in its entirety.
Taken as a collection of short stories, this has the same strengths and weaknesses of all collections. Some good, some not so. But, oh, when it is good, as in Phaethon pleading with his father, Phoebus/Apollo, to drive the Sun God’s chariot across the sky, it is divine.
This translation by David Raeburn is contemporary and accessible. Lovely to dip into or read in its entirety.