"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard.???Michael Dirda, Washington PostOvid's epic poem???whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages???is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work." . . . . .