Ovid vs. Zimmerman

Metamorphosis was written by Mary Zimmerman, and as many of you can guess was derived form the ancient Metamorphoses. It is in fact an interpretation of the text itself and it was interesting to see how skillfully she was able to transform characters and other elements form the original text an adapt them to fit the time. Personally, as I said before, I was having a hard time understanding listening to the spoken version of it and I'm glad that we are now into this newer version of it. Even though Zimmerman had to change some essentials of the stories, it was more than clear to me how they related, and specially it made it easy for me to connect the new characters to their original ones. As well, she kept the main idea of each chapter constant, varying only certain characteristics so it was gratifying to finally understand what Metamorphosis was all about. I must say in this case I definitely stay with the newer version of the text, specially for the purpose I'm reading it.