Metamorphoses- Book VIII

Metamorphoses: Book VIII (1983) by Ovid – Oxford University Press

Ah yes, nothing says bedtime reading like a 2,000-year-old Roman epic crammed into a slim Oxford paperback from 1983. This is Book VIII of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, so expect plenty of transformations, tragedies, and gods behaving badly. Think monster hunts, hubristic heroes, and the occasional grisly feast — all wrapped in the kind of scholarly commentary that makes you wonder if the editor ever had a social life.

Our copy is the 1983 Oxford University Press edition, which means sturdy academic respectability, slightly yellowing paper, and that faint whiff of being abandoned in a library basement for decades. A must for classicists, myth buffs, or anyone who enjoys a bit of light cannibalism in their poetry.

Condition: lovingly “pre-owned,” with the kind of wear that says it has definitely been opened more than once but probably not read all the way through.

This is an ex-school book from Old Palace of John Whitgift school in Croydon.

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