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

Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.

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Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovid´s other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and Metamorphoses.

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Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovid´s other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and Metamorphoses.

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