Ovid - Collected Works, incl. The Metamorphoses (40 books)

* Ovid - Collected Works, incl. The Metamorphoses (40 books)

PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO (43 BCE – CE 17/18) , was one of the most influential poets of ancient Rome. Writing during the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, Ovid became a central literary figure in the Augustan age, alongside contemporaries like Virgil and Horace. Unlike these poets, whose works often aligned more closely with the moral and political ideals of Emperor Augustus, Ovid developed a reputation for wit, elegance, and a playful, sometimes subversive approach to traditional themes such as love, mythology, and transformation.

Ovid's most famous work, the METAMORPHOSES , is a 15-book narrative poem chronicling the history of the world from chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar, unified by the theme of physical transformation. Comprising over 250 mythological tales, it includes iconic stories like Daphne and Apollo, Narcissus, and Daedalus and Icarus. Written in dactylic hexameter, it remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today, and has influenced Western art, literature, and culture for two millennia, inspiring such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare.

Beyond the Metamorphoses, Ovid was a master of elegiac poetry, initiating his career with the AMORES ("The Loves"), a witty, often irreverent collection focusing on the complexities of romantic relationships. His HEROIDES ("Heroines") demonstrated his empathetic, innovative voice, presenting fictitious letters written by mythological women to their absent or faithless lovers. The controversial ARS AMATORIA ("The Art of Love") was a didactic poem offering ironic, structured advice on seduction and romance, which likely contributed to his later downfall. Ovid also composed the six-book FASTI , structured as a series of eye-witness reports and interviews with Roman deities who explain the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs—often with multiple etiologies.

Following his unexpected banishment in CE 8 to Tomis on the Black Sea by Emperor Augustus—reportedly due to "a poem and a mistake" (often associated with Ars Amatoria)—Ovid's tone shifted dramatically. During this final exile, he produced the TRISTIA ("Sorrows") and EPISTULAE EX PONTO ("Letters from the Black Sea"), which are poignant, melancholic poems appealing for recall to Rome. Despite the hardships of exile, his works, particularly the Metamorphoses, secured his lasting legacy as one of the most influential poets in European literature.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:

* Amores [tr. Bishop] (Carcanet, 2012) – ePUB
* Amores, Book 3 [tr. Davis] (Oxford, 2023) – PDF
* Art of Love [tr. Michie] (Modern Library, 2002) – ePUB
* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2012) – ePUB
* Erotic Poems [tr. Green] (Penguin, 2010) – ePUB
* Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria [tr. Krisak] (Pennsylvania, 2014) – ePUB / PDF
* Essential Metamorphoses [tr. Lombardo] (Hackett, 2011) – ePUB
* Fasti [tr. Boyle & Woodard] (Penguin, 2004) – ePUB
* Fasti [tr. Wiseman] (Oxford, 2011) – ePUB / PDF
* Fasti, Books I-III [tr. Beek] (Liverpool, 2022) – PDF
* Heroides : A New Translation and Critical Essays [tr. Murgatroyd et. al] (Routledge, 2017) – PDF
* Heroides [tr. Isbell] (Penguin, 2004) – ePUB
* Heroides [tr. Lombardo & McClure] (Hackett, 2024) – ePUB
* Heroines (Heroides) [tr. Pollard] (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) – ePUB
* How to Get Over a Breakup [tr. Fontaine] (Princeton, 2024) – ePUB
* Love Poems [tr. Kline] (Poetry in Translation, 2001) – ePUB / PDF
* Love Poems [tr. Melville] (Oxford, 2008) – PDF
* Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid [tr. Slavitt] (Harvard, 2011) – PDF
* Metamorphoses [tr. Golding] (Penguin, 2002) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Gregory] (Signet, 2009) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Humphries, Annotated Edition] (Indiana, 2018) – ePUB / PDF
* Metamorphoses [tr. Kline] (Poetry in Translation, 2000) – ePUB / PDF
* Metamorphoses [tr. Lombardo] (Hackett, 2010) – ePUB / PDF
* Metamorphoses [tr. Mandelbaum] (HMH, 2017) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Martin] (Norton Critical Edition, 2004) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. McCarter] (Penguin, 2022) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Melville] (Oxford, 2008) – ePUB / PDF^
* Metamorphoses [tr. Miller] (Barnes & Noble, 2005) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Raeburn] (Penguin, 2004) – ePUB
* Metamorphoses [tr. Slavitt] (Johns Hopkins, 1994) – PDF
* Metamorphoses [tr. Soucy] (California, 2023) – ePUB / PDF
* Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2 [tr. Hejduk] (Wisconsin, 2014) – PDF
* Poems of Exile [tr. Kline] (Poetry in Translation, 2003) – PDF
* Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters [tr. Green] (California, 2005) – ePUB / PDF
* Poetry of Exile [tr. Slavitt] (Johns Hopkins, 1990) – PDF
* Serpents Teeth [tr. Innis] (Penguin, 2006) – ePUB
* Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia [tr. Melville] (Oxford, 1992) – PDF
* Tales from Ovid [tr. Hughes] (Faber & Faber, 1997) – ePUB

== LATIN ==

* Selections from Heroides [ed. Godwin] (Bloomsbury, 2019) – ePUB

== OTHER ==

* After Ovid: New Metamorphoses [ed. Hofmann & Lasdun) (Noonday, 1994) – PDF

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