![]() In 2016 he was awarded the international Balzan Prize for comparative literature. Piero Boitani is professor emeritus at the Sapienza University in Rome. To describe transformation as the truest form of being requires the ability to see bodies and imagine them in continuous movement to listen to voices and reproduce them with extreme concision but infinite resonance to fully understand the passions that are stirred in the soul of women, men and gods and help shape, together with fate and chance, existence and the world. Like Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. The principle of continuous transformation dominates the narrative: “everything changes, nothing dies everything flows, and is formed as a fleeting image”. The text jumps from one of its 250 tales to another with dizzying speed and manages to cover classical mythology in its entirety. 5 4 Unknown artist, The Sacrifice of Iphigenia and The Siege of Troy, woodcuts in Ovid, Habebis candide lector. ![]() 3 Abraham Fraunce, The Third Part of the Countess of Pembrokes. Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical. That work challenged time and succeeded in its endeavour, for it opens with the creation of the universe and ends with the final metamorphosis of the author beyond his life and his era. 2 Liz Oakley-Brown, Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation (Aldershot, 2006), p. Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovids >Metamorphoses. ![]() Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is the only ancient book that matches the Odyssey for poetic charm and narrative power. ![]()
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