The Essential Metamorphoses (Hackett Classics)

The Essential Metamorphoses, Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole of Ovid’s self-styled history from the world's first origins down to my own time, this practical and judicious selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature yet manages to relate many of the most fascinating episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus--and is accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts.

• The Iliad
• Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics)
• Medea and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
• Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
• Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
• Works and Days and Theogony (Hackett Classics)
• Bacchae
• The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)
• Aeneid (Hackett Classics)
• The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics)