‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’

Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.

(Taken from Books VIII and IX of Mary M. Innes’s translation of Metamorphoses.)

[ Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 BC–17 AD ]

Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday, introducing 80 works from the classics.