Please tell me what you think about OVID'S - METAMORPHOSES?

Report Abuse by Artemis I really enjoyed reading Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' - I love the Greek myths and I particularly enjoyed Book VII of the Metamorphoses dealing and Medea and Jason and also Books X & XI which tell the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, one of my favourites in mythology.

I like Ovid's work and his attitude - the fact that Augustus was so outraged by his 'Ars Amatoria' that he exiled him makes Ovid and his works even more interesting than those of a writer like Virgil who basically made 'The Aeneid' into a propaganda piece for the Augustan regime. In Ovid's hands the stories of myth and legend are beautifully written bringing across the beauty and tragedy of the mythology and the Trojan War and it's aftermath in Books XII, XIII & XIV. In fact, you've just inspired me to re-read it.