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Metamorphoses by Ovid, the awe-inspiring epic poem drawing on the mythology of the world’s creation and humanity’s survival despite the gods’ intervention and the countless transformations that take place along the way – including the timeless stories of Arachne, King Midas and Icarus. The epic is considered to be one of the greatest literary classics and is one of the only collections of so many fascinating ancient myths. Ovid’s legacy lives on to the present day and he is considered to be one of the greatest influences on Western art and culture, as well as being one of the most translated authors of all time.
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Ovid
Latin poet
Born in 43 BCDied in AD 17/18Notable works:Ars Amatoria, elegiac poemFasti, elegiac poemTristia, elegiac poemPublius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17/18) was a Latin poet. He came from a well-off family and benefitted from a complete education: training in rhetoric and in the practice of Roman law. However, poetry was where his passion lay. It brought him fame: Roman high society admired his elegies and his fictional love letters, such as the Heroides. As an adult, Ovid abandoned erotic poetry to dedicate his time to his poem Metamorphoses, which recounts events from Greek and Roman mythology.
Under the reign of Emperor Augustus, he was disgraced and exiled to Tomis. It was in this town, in modern-day Romania, that Ovid spent the last years of his life, which he dedicated to writing mournful texts such as the Tristia or the Epistulae ex Ponto, volumes of poetry addressed to his loved ones who were still in Rome.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses from the world’s creation
Genre: epic poetryReference edition: Ovid. (2004) The Metamorphoses. Trans. Kline, A. S. Ann Arbor: Borders Classics.Written in: AD 1-2Themes: metamorphosis, earth’s creation, love, mythologyA long epic poem of 12000 verses written in Latin, Metamorphoses, Ovid’s major work, takes Greek and Latin myths with the aim of recounting the history of the world. The author explains how the universe appeared: the minerals, plants, animals, stars, etc. come from a succession of a thousand metamorphoses instigated by the gods. Ovid moves chronologically through history in its entirety; he therefore also goes through the foundation of Rome up until the reign of Augustus.
This epic explains the world in full, with the original aspect of not including disappearances or deaths despite all the fights that mark history; there are only transformations from one element to another element or from one being to another being.
Summary
Book I
Before the appearance of the sea, the sky and the earth, there was chaos: a shapeless mass made up of badly organised things. The elements counteracted one another: the cold fought with the heat, the soft with the hard, the wet with the dry. One of the gods ended the conflicts by separating the waters from the land and the land from the sky. The creator of the world mapped out everything and ensured that every region was populated with living beings. Humans were born of a divine seed and resemble the gods, masters of the universe.
Book II
