"The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII" by Ovid is a Latin narrative poem written in 8 CE. This masterwork chronicles the history of the world from creation to Julius Caesar's deification through over 250 transformation myths. Spanning themes from divine comedy to vengeful gods and passionate love, the poem defies simple classification as it shifts between tones and stories. With gods humiliated by Cupid and mortals elevated above the divine, Ovid inverts the expected order, making transformation itself the constant in a world where nothing remains unchanged. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Ovid, 44 BCE-18? |
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| Translator | Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878 |
| Title | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses |
| Credits | Louise Hope, Steve Schulze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Mythology, Classical -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 21765 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-21765-9 |
| Release Date | Jun 8, 2007 |
| Last Update | Jun 28, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 15066 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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