Excerpt from Stories From Ovid's Metamorphoses Like Horace,3 Ovid was taken early to Rome to be educated under the best teachers of the Capital. But he never quite lost that love of nature which he had learnt as a child, and which reveals itself in the lively sympathy with which he paints the backgrounds of his pictures, the rocks and torrents of the Meta morphoses. Meanwhile he was set to read for the Bar, and had to postpone his devotion to the Muses. Not until the brother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.