Ovid’s Metamorphoses

C. Luke Soucy is a translator, poet, and vocal Minnesota native. In addition to literary translation, he has worked in regional theatre, in a chromatography lab, and as a university bureaucrat. Soucy is a 2019 graduate of Princeton University, where he received the E. E. Cummings Society Prize of the Academy of American Poets.

"S[oucy]’s translation has great merit. It is more poetic than any current version."

• ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Translator’s Note METAMORPHOSES Book 1 Prologue • The First Creation • The Ages of Man • The Gigantomachy •Lycaön • The Deluge • Deucalion and Pyrrha • The SecondCreation: Python • Apollo and Daphne • Io, Part 1 • Argus:Pan and Syrinx • Io, Part 2 • Phaëthon, Part 1Book 2 Phaëthon, Part 2 • The Heliads and Cygnus • Callisto • The Ravenand the Crow • Ocyrhoë • Battus • The Envy of Aglauros • EuropaBook 3 Cadmus and the Dragon’s Teeth • Actaeon • Semele • Tiresias •Echo and Narcissus • Pentheus and AcoetesBook 4 The Daughters of Minyas, Part 1 • Pyramus and Thisbe • The Lovesof the Sun • Hermaphroditus and Salmacis • The Daughters ofMinyas, Part 2 • Athamas and Ino • Cadmus and Harmonia • Perseus,Atlas, and Andromeda • Perseus and MedusaBook 5 Perseus and Phineus • Proetus and Polydectes • Pyreneus and theMuses • The Pierides, Part 1 • The Rape of Proserpine • Arethusa •Lyncus and Triptolemus • The Pierides, Part 2Book 6 Arachne and Minerva • Niobe • Latona and the Lycians • Marsyas •Pelops • Tereus, Procne, and Philomela • Boreas and OrithyiaBook 7 Medea • Theseus • The War with Minos • The Myrmidons • Cephalusand ProcrisBook 8 Scylla and Nisus • The Minotaur • Daedalus • The CalydonianHunt • Althaea and Meleäger • Acheloüs • Baucis andPhilemon • Mestra and Erysichthon • Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 1Book 9 Acheloüs and Hercules, Part 2 • The Death of Hercules • Lucinaand Galanthis • Dryope and Lotus • Iolaüs and Themis • Byblis andCaunus • Iphis and IantheBook 10 Orpheus and Eurydice • Cyparissus • Ganymede andHyacinth • The Cerastae, the Propoetides, andPygmalion • Myrrha • Venus and AdonisBook 11 The Death of Orpheus • Midas • Peleus and Thetis • Daedalionand Chione • The Wolf of Psamathe • Ceÿx and Alcyone • AesacusBook 12 The Greeks at Aulis • The House of Rumor • Achilles and Cygnus •Caenis Becomes Caeneus • The Centauromachy • Hercules andPericlymenus • The Death of AchillesBook 13 The Judgment of Arms • The Sorrows of Hecuba • Memnon •The Daughters of Anius • Galatea, Acis, and Polyphemus • Scyllaand Glaucus, Part 1Book 14 Scylla and Glaucus, Part 2 • The Sibyl of Cumae • Polyphemus • Ulyssesand Circe • Picus and Canens • The Crew of Diomedes • The Apotheosisof Aeneas • Pomona and Vertumnus • The Apotheoses ofRomulus and HersilieBook 15Hercules and Croton • Pythagoras • Egeria and Hippolytus •Cipus • Aesculapius • The Apotheosis of Julius Caesar • EpilogueCommentary Appendix: Text and Translation NotesAcknowledgments Selected Bibliography Glossary of Names and Places About the Translator