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The metamorphoses of ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into english. Drm free books newsletters feedback blog help logout. Along with virgils aeneid and horaces odes and satires, ovid s metamorphoses is a central masterpiece of augustan latin poetry. His most celebrated work is the metamorphoses, a poem in 15 books recounting stories from greek and roman myth.
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