Metamorphoses - Oxford World's Classics Author:Ovid, A. D. Melville (Translator) Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique a... more »nd elusive vision of reality.