Simon Reade

Tales from Ovid

Part One Metamorphosis (Song, using six lines from Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon and Ovid’s “In nova fert animus mutates dicere formas corpora) Tiresias Echo and Narcissus Semele Bacchus and Pentheus Arachne and Minerva Part Two Myrrha Midas Salmacis and Hermaphroditus Tereus and Philomela Pan and Apollo

Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid

Notes on the Adaptation   Simon Reade, Tim Supple Introduction    Ted Hughes [from his original collection Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the ‘Metamorphoses’, published by Faber and Faber, 1997] Tales from Ovid Tales from Ovid Genealogy [family tree] Glossary of characters Metamorphoses: A selection of [excerpts from] other translations