The Washington Post, February 1st, 1998
TALES FROM OVID By Ted Hughes Farrar Straus Giroux. 257 pp. $25 AN OLD TALE's best for winter, and very few are older or better than those in Ovid's great poem the Metamorphoses. For most of the past 2,000 years -- and especially from the 12th through the 18th centuries -- writers, painters and composers found in its witty, dexterous verse a kind of secular scripture, a source book for the most evocative and disturbing myths of the ancient world. Even today, many readers will recognize at least some of its more than 200 stories: The rape of Proserpina. Actaeon devoured by his own hunting dogs....
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