Ovids Metamorphoses in an Effort to Improve

in an Effort to Improve Himself

As Told by Soviet Advisers to the Angolan Army

It's a Novel Whose Interest and Appeal Comes From Its Observations Rather Than Its Plot Intrigues (In Conventional Terms

Critical and Cultural History

" a Startling Account--And Indictment--Of Colonialism

Ovids Metamorphoses in an Effort to ImproveOvid's Deliciously Witty and Exuberant Epic Starts With the Creation of the World and Brings Together a Series of Ingeniously Linked Greek and Roman Myths and Legends in Which Men and Women Are Transformed, Often by Love Into Flowers, Trees, Stones and Stars. This New Verse Translation, in Simple and Swift English Hexameters, Allows Ovid's Narrative to Flow Pulling the Reader Along With It.