TITLE: Metamorphoses AUTHOR: Ovid [Publius /ovidus Naso] DATE PUBLISHED: A long time ago, somewhere around 8 A.D.? ___________________ DESCRIPTION: Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first ...
Ovid falls in line with Lucretius and Virgil as one of Rome’s greatest poets. Metamorphoses compiles the myths inherited by the Greeks that helped define Roman culture. The focus, as one can tell by the title, is on change. Story after story details the transformation of one being in another. I...
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