The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Media Adaptations

The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the “Metamorphoses,” http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/ is the University of Vermont’s online, digitized collection of illustrations from the 1640 edition of the Metamorphoses by George Sandys and the 1703 edition from seventeenth-century German artist Johann Wilhelm Bauer. The illustrations are taken from the university’s private rare book collection and offer a rare glimpse into some of the English translations’ early artistic depictions of the classical tales.

The University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center at...

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