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Myth-making from ancient to modern – but Metamorphica doesn’t quite live up to Ovid

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

‘My spirit moves me to speak of forms changed into new bodies,’ proclaimed Ovid at the beginning of the Metamorphoses: a glorious compendium of classical mythology stretching from the creation of the universe to the Emperor Augustus.

Metamorphica is a collection of 53 versions of classical myths as told by Ovid, Homer and the Greek tragedians (Mason’s first novel was The Lost Books of the Odyssey).

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