
Ovid, Metamorphoses X
Metamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Atalanta and Hippomenes (with the race for the golden apples),...
Lee Fratantuono is William Francis Whitlock Professor of Latin in Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. His books include Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid (2007), A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid XI (2009), Madness Transformed: A Reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses (2011) and Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia (2012).
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17) was born at Sulmona in...Contributor(s)
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