This abridged version of Ovid's epic collection of Greco-Roman mythological tales is for contemporary readers who like a rip-roaring, good and easy read. Here we find a very different heavenly vision compared to that of the god of Abraham who would come to impose a much less joyous and playful world view.

It's fair to say that Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' presents the most eloquent, entertaining, and erotic version of an alternative bible for Western civilization. There's a rich variety of lusty, scheming and vengeful gods in these pages. They're more than happy to blissfully romp and rollick their way across heaven and earth to interfere with humanity in every possible way.

'Metamorphoses' is about the origins and continual change of the dynamic physical world, and our unbridled human nature brought to life through the genius of creative imagination. With the meddling of the gods above, along with an array of minor forest, river, and sea deities (nymphs get especially rough treatment), humanity is cast onwards through the great drama of life.

The inventive style of this scandalous poet of Augustan Rome gives us an eternal world both comic and tragic. More than anything else, 'Metamorphoses' is utterly, wildly, intensely, passionately human.

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