The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

by Ovid (translated by Arthur Golding)

The first seven books of Ovid's dazzling poem of transformation, from the making of the world through a cascade of myths in which gods and mortals are changed into beast, tree and stone.

At a glance Ovid's great poem of endless change has fed the Western imagination for two thousand… What it's about The Metamorphoses, Books I-VII carries the reader from the creation of… Here are the flood, Apollo and Daphne, Io, Phaethon's ruinous ride, the tragic love of… Gods pursue, mortals suffer, and bodies are forever changing into laurel, river, bird or…

The Metamorphoses, Books I-VII carries the reader from the creation of the ordered world out of chaos through a flowing sequence of myths, each one turning, sooner or later, on a transformation.