27. Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18)

Original language: Latin.

I read Metamorphoses in the Penguin Classics edition (2004), translated by David Raeburn, with an introduction by Denis Feeney.

Nothing that great. A catalog/encyclopedia of Greek and Roman myths, but it only superficially goes into each myth, unlike, say, the Greek dramatists who would devote a whole play to a myth.

Of course, it’s hard to translate verse and wordplay.

Last thoughts on Ovid

The book was a real disappointment. Nothing special.