' Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky he left his guide & soared upwards' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus & the Minotaur Daedalus & Icarus the Calydonian Boar-Hunt & many other famous myths Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Ovid (c 43 BCE-17 CE) Ovid's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems Fasti Heroides & Metamorphoses