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Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by A. D. Melville (Translator), E. J. Kenney (Introduction), Ovid /. Kenney Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953737-2 / 0199537372 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953737-2 / 9780199537372 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 |