Shapeshifters : tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Title
Shapeshifters : tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Personal Author EPSB
Adrian, Mitchell

Summary
Recreated from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," these stories, ballads, and headline news articles let the Minotaur, King Midas, Arachne, Bacchus, Persephone, and many more haunting figures walk the Earth once more.

Other Title
Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Year Published
2010

Physical Description
143 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Contents
Great dance -- Out of chaos -- Four ages -- Revolt of the giants -- Jove in judgement -- Wolfman -- Great flood -- Two survivors -- Wrong arrows -- Black cloud -- Pan piping -- Chariot of fire -- Transition -- Bears in space -- Informer's pay -- Hunter hunted -- Sex changing -- Kiss the mirror -- Boy god -- Bride of darkness -- Young critic -- Hospitality repaid -- Quick-change artist -- King of hunger -- Orpheus sings -- Sculptor's prize -- Love goddess in love -- Atalanta the runner -- Purple hair -- Maze of the minotaur -- Icarus falls -- Golden touch -- Song contest -- Proud weaver -- Goodbye -- Old gods -- Note on Ovid -- How to pronounce the Greek names.

Subject
Metamorphosis -- Mythology.
 
Mythology, Classical.
 
Gods, Greek.
 
Goddesses, Greek.
 
Metamorphosis -- Juvenile poetry.
 
Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile poetry.
 
Gods -- Juvenile poetry.

Added Author
Lee, Alan.
 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.

Summary
Recreated from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," these stories, ballads, and headline news articles let the Minotaur, King Midas, Arachne, Bacchus, Persephone, and many more haunting figures walk the Earth once more.

ISBN
9781845075361

Publisher
London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2010.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
A. Blair McPherson823 MITBook31458000108459Non-Fiction