Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses , by Ovid I've been doing a readalong of this, sort of, with Cleo at Classical Carousel and o at Behold the Stars , before a more ambitious readalong of The Faerie Queene , which is set to start in April. They have been much better at it, though, with weekly update posts discussing each book, whereas I just read the thing and didn't do anything else. So you should check out their posts, because this is going to be on the minimal side in comparison. I actually wasn't at all sure if I had read all of the Metamorphoses before, because I know I read at least some in college, but how much? Who knows by now (not me). I got out my old copy--which is a Penguin prose edition old enough to be priced at seven shillings and sixpence!--and found a note used as a bookmark, scribbled with phone numbers and arcane things. There are fifteen books, each a nice length to read on its own. They are not terribly separate, really; in each book, Ovid goes thr...