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Metamorphoses: The Metamorphoses of Ovid Retold for Latin Learners - Volume I
Paperback
Foreign Language GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Latin
Read Ovid in Latin. No dictionary required!
The Metamorphoses is the most beloved storybook of the ancient world - the creation of the cosmos, Daphne turning to laurel under Apollo's hands, Phaethon falling from the Sun's chariot, Narcissus at the pool, Pyramus and Thisbe at the wall. This is Volume I: In Nova Corpora - the first twelve myths of Ovid's epic, retold whole as one continuous story in clear, graded Latin that a motivated learner can actually read.
How it works: every new word is explained in Latin, right in the margin, the moment you meet it - the proven Lingua Latina method. You begin with the creation of the world in simple sentences; twelve myths later you are reading Ovid's own hexameters. No English glossary. No dictionary drudgery. Just story after story pulling you forward.
Inside Volume I:
- Twelve complete myths in the poet's own order - Creation and the Four Ages, the Flood, Daphne, Io, Phaethon, Europa, Actaeon, Echo & Narcissus, Pyramus & Thisbe (the GCSE set text), Perseus & Andromeda, Proserpina, and Arachne - no fragments, no anthology feeling: the carmen perpetuum as Ovid designed it
- Ovid's actual verse woven in throughout: every chapter culminates in a TEXTUS ORIGINALIS - the famous hexameters, fully macronized, reached at the very moment of the story they tell
- A gentle verse primer (Dē Arte Metricā) that teaches you to hear the hexameter before you meet it
- Every transformation told limb by limb - Ovid's genius moment in every myth, and the perfect way to learn the vocabulary of the body and the natural world
- Engraved illustrations in the margins: the realia of the ancient world - the loom and shuttle, Cupid's two arrows, the winged sandals, the pomegranate - pictured where a picture teaches faster than words
- Complete learner's apparatus: 690+ word index, a three-tier appendix of presumed vocabulary, and PERSONAE FABULARUM - the whole cast reviewed in Latin once you know their fates
- Macrons on every word, long vowels marked throughout - read with correct quantities from day one
Who it's for: self-learners past the basics (Familia Romana level or equivalent), homeschool families, teachers seeking connected reading at last, exam students meeting Pyramus & Thisbe or sight-reading Ovid - and anyone who ever wanted the myths from the source, in the language they were made in.
The old stories are not summaries here. They breathe, they joke, they grieve - and they change you a little, the way they changed everything they touched. In nova fert animus... Begin.
Volume II - Carmen Perpetuum (Niobe to the poet's own immortality) completes the epic. Also in the Lingua Latina series: Caesar's De Bello Gallico, Pliny's Epistulae, and Vergil's Aeneis.
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