Böcker av Sarah Annes Brown

The impact of Ovid's Metamorphoses on our culture can hardly be overestimated. The poem is one of the most exciting and accessible classical texts, our key source for nearly all the famous myths of Greece and Rome.

Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome. This text gives an account of the poem's influence on English literature and charts the reception of the poem over six centuries.

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.