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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

Ovid

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Ovid's great poem tells, in one flowing story from the creation of the world, hundreds of myths in which people and gods change shape. This volume contains…

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Author
Ovid
Category
Psychology & Society
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Ovid's great poem tells, in one flowing story from the creation of the world, hundreds of myths in which people and gods change shape. This volume contains the first seven of its fifteen books: the four ages of mankind and the great flood; Apollo's pursuit of Daphne, who becomes a laurel tree; Phaethon, who drives the chariot of the sun and sets the earth on fire; Narcissus and Echo; the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe of Babylon; Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa; Arachne, turned into a spider for weaving better than a goddess; and Medea's magic.

Context and significance

Ovid (43 BC–AD 17 or 18) finished the poem shortly before Augustus exiled him to the Black Sea, and it became the great storehouse of classical myth for European poets and painters, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Titian and Bernini. This prose translation is by Henry T. Riley. Shakespeare's mechanicals perform Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Ovid's lighter side is in the Art of Love.

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