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Ovid

Metamorphoses

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Additional English Translations of the Metamorphoses

  • Trans. David Raeburn (Penguin Classics)
  • Trans. Rolfe Humphries
  • Trans. Charles Martin, et al.
  • Trans. Allen Mandelbaum
  • Trans. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett Classics)
  • Trans. Charles Martin (Norton Critical Editions)
  • Trans. Stephanie McCarter (Penguin Classics)

Further Reading: Ancient Literature

  • Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
  • Catalogue of Women by Hesiod
  • Theogony by Hesiod
  • Odyssey by Homer
  • Iliad by Homer
  • Homeric Hymn to Demeter
  • History of Rome by Livy
  • Ars Amatoria
  • Heroides by Ovid
  • Amores by Ovid
  • Fasti by Ovid
  • Tristia by Ovid
  • Epistulae ex Ponto by Ovid
  • Medea by Seneca
  • Hercules Oetaeus by Seneca
  • Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
  • Aeneid by Virgil

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

In this article, classics scholar Sasha Barish examines gender transformations in the Metamorphoses.

Classics professor A. Everett Beek discusses the sexual violence in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shares thoughts on how to address the subject in college classrooms.

  • Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph Solodow (1999)

Italian classicist Gian Biagio Conte provides a sweeping overview of Latin literature that spans 1,000 years.

This article surveys a debate about classical works that unfolded at Columbia University.