Image: Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin From cover: The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods. Type of News/Audience: Alumni Faculty and Staff Students