• An accessible and modern translation
• Includes comprehensive explanatory notes, making the poetic verse accessible and revealing contextual and literary features
• Contains a glossary and index of names to help the reader follow the developments and characters in the text
• Includes a bibliography

    
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and divine characters reflect the never-ending flux and reflux of the universe itself.