![]() ![]() Some of these myths are taken directly from other sources, but most are adaptations and re-imaginings of characters and stories, which Ovid adapted for his own purposes. ![]() The poems move in chronological order from the creation of the world to the coronation of Julius Caesar, with a focus on myth. Instead, the original manuscript is a collection of approximately 250 myths, written in verse, some of which span many pages while others are much shorter in length. It was written in 8 AD, and though it is long enough to be considered an epic, it doesn't have the same sense of cohesive narrative that many epic poems possess. Ovid's Metamorphosis is a book that is challenging to classify. That book won a Whitbread Award in 1997, and prompted Hughes to expand the collection to include twenty-four of Ovid's mythic poems. The book came from Hughes' initial translation of four of Ovid's stories, which were compiled in After Ovid, New Metamorphosis in 1996. ![]() The book is widely considered one of the best translations of Ovid among readers and scholars, and was published in 1999. Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from Metamorphosis is a collection of translated stories originally by the Latin writer Ovid, and compiled and translated by the Poet Laureate and classicist Ted Hughes. ![]()
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