Ovid Audio Books

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world.

This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney.

The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject – letters by famous mythological characters addressed to their beloved ones – but also because it's considered by some the first example of the Epistle as a literary genre – a statement made by Ovid himself in his Ars Amatoria.

Ovid's sensuous and witty poem, first published in A.D. 8, brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales from Greece and Rome, ingeniously linked by the motif of transformation from one form into another.

This extraordinary collection of some 250 Greek and Roman myths and folk tales has always been a popular favorite, and has decisively shaped western art and literature from the moment it was completed....