Overview

Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus, and King Midas.

Target Audience and Purpose

The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the storytelling, character-drawing, and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets.

Features

The text is accompanied by full vocabulary and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage highlight important details and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage.

No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.