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Ovid: Metamorphoses IIIMetamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book III concentrates on the House of Thebes, and this selection details the story of Pentheus and his tragic end after refusing to acknowledge the god Bacchus. This edition contains the Latin

religious conflicts and military history

originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy

plot structure

rise to an elite unit under Alexander the Great

with resonances to the present day

This edition’s third volume offers all the major fragments of lost Aeschylean plays

μια νεαρή κοπέλα από φτωχή οικογένεια

Μόνη της ελπίδα ο πατέρας της που την ακούει προσεκτικά και στον λιγοστό ελεύθερο χρόνο του της εξηγεί όσα εκείνη διψάει να μάθει

ένα περιπετειώδες μυθιστόρημα ενηλικίωσης

ταχυδρομικοί διανομείς

that when the forces of Alexander the Great reached what is now southern Pakistan they encountered a people called the Siboi

These ekphrases incorporate major themes of the Aeneid