Selections from Ovid: Chiefly the Metamorphoses (Classic Reprint)

The poet proposes to tell in a continuous narrative, beginning with the beginning of the world and continuing to his own time, those stories which have in them this element of the marvellous, - the transformations, particularly, of men into plants or animals. But as nearly all myths introduce some such feature first or last, he manages to include most of the important ones with more or less fulness. They are told in a rambling, discursive way, one story leading to another by the slightest possible link of associ ation, - sometimes by what seems merely the poet's artifice, aiming to make a coherent tale out of the vast miscellany at his command.'

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