This book presents the most renowned work of the great Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE – 17/18 CE), one of Ancient Rome’s three “canonical” poets alongside Virgil and Horace: the epic poem Metamorphoses. It is the first complete Armenian translation from the original Latin, accompanied by an extensive introduction and meticulous annotations. This literary masterpiece, comparable in significance and influence on European culture to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey or Virgil’s Aeneid, serves as an inexhaustible treasury of Greco-Roman myths—primarily stories culminating in the transformation of a character (or characters). Many myths have reached us solely through this work, while others, also found in other sources, are rendered in Metamorphoses with greater richness, detail, and new elements. With its unparalleled poetic beauty and artistic merit, Ovid’s poem is considered one of the greatest achievements of epic poetry.
Translation, introduction, and annotations by Aram Topchyan and Gohar Muradyan
Pages: 640 + 32-page supplement