Download or read book Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a freshunderstanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.