| Author: | Ovid |
| Translation: | A. D. Melville |
| Origin: | UK |
| Introduction: | E. J. Kenney |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780199537372 |
| Edition number: | 1st edition |
| Publication year: | 1986 |
| Dimensions: | 13x19.6 |
| Pages: | 528 |
| Location: | 2Ε |
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.