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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 .
The poem stands in the tradition of mythological and etiological catalogue poetry such as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Callimachus' Aetia, Nicander's Heteroeumena, and Parthenius' Metamorphoses. The first book describes the formation of the world, the ages of man , the flood , the story of Daphne 's rape by Apollo and Io 's by Jupiter.
Metamorphoses by Ovid (Greek and Roman mythology) Pharsalia by Lucan (Roman history; unfinished) Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete) Punica by Silius Italicus (Roman history) Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius (Roman poet, Greek mythology; latter poem incomplete)
The fullest surviving and most famous ancient work about transformation in Greek myth is Roman poet Ovid's epic the Metamorphoses. Throughout history, the Metamorphoses has been used not only as a compendium of information on Ancient Greek and Roman lore, but also as a vehicle for allegorical exposition, exegesis, commentaries and adaptations ...
Metamorphoses (Transformations) is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.
Cover of George Sandys's 1632 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished. This is a list of characters in the poem Metamorphoses by Ovid.It contains more than 200 characters, summaries of their roles, and information on where they appear.
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
The only source on Arne's story is Ovid's mythological poem Metamorphoses from 8 BC, [1] where—depending on the manuscript—her name is given as Arne Sithonis or Arne Sithon ("the Sithonian Arne", meaning "the Thracian Arne"; see below).