By Ted Hughes
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore
Fall 2013
Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from Metamorphosis is a collection of translated stories originally by the Latin writer Ovid, and compiled and translated by the Poet Laureate and classicist Ted Hughes. The book is widely considered one of the best translations of Ovid among readers and scholars, and was published in 1999. The book came from Hughes’ initial translation of four of Ovid’s stories, which were compiled in After Ovid, New Metamorphosis in 1996. That book won a Whitbread Award in 1997, and prompted Hughes to expand the collection to include twenty-four of Ovid’s mythic poems.
