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  1. The Metamorphoses ( Latin: Metamorphōsēs, from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus.

  2. Book the Fourteenth [12k] Download: A 648k text-only version is available for download . Metamorphoses by Ovid, part of the Internet Classics Archive.

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    With illustrations by Hendrik Goltzius (The Netherlands, 1558-1617) courtesy of LACMA and the Rijksmuseum. 1. Home 2. Browse below 3. Download 4. Buy This Book Book I(Chaos, Four Ages, Flood, Daphne, Io, Syrinx, Phaethon) Book II(Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa) Book III(Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus) B...

    In the MetamorphosesOvid retells stories from the Greek myths, arranging them in roughly chronological order, from the origins of the world to his own times. His charming and graceful versions, full of life and interest, express his humanist approach, his feeling for pathos, and his endless curiosity and delight in human affairs. Each tale involves...

    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was born in Sulmo, Italy in 43BC. Intended for the law he instead took up poetry, writing the Amores, and the Art of Love (Ars Amatoria), works which caused offence in some quarters, including amongst the ruling dynasty. Ovid made amends, to a degree, in the Metamorphoses, where Augustus and Livia are echoed in Jupiter a...

  3. Jul 1, 2024 · Metamorphoses, poem in 15 books, written in Latin about 8 CE by Ovid. It is written in hexameter verse. The work is a collection of mythological and legendary stories, many taken from Greek sources, in which transformation (metamorphosis) plays a role, however minor.

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  4. Ovid - The Metamorphoses: a new complete downloadable English translation with comprehensive index, and other poetry translations including Baudelaire, Chinese, European .

  5. Ovid: The Metamorphoses: a new complete downloadable English translation with comprehensive index, and other poetry translations including Baudelaire , Chinese, European .

  6. Jun 8, 2007 · The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the ...

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