Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses (Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers) (English and Latin Edition)

Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses (Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers) (English and Latin Edition) by Jones, Peter. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521613323.

Presents a selection of stories from Ovids Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the worlds most delightful and influential poets. The text is accompanied by full vocabulary and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners courses, Reading Latin and Wheelocks Latin. Essays at the end of each passage point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.