Ovid’s Metamorphoses Is Published
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Science, Mythology, Folklore
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Poetry, Poets, Empires, Dynasties, Legends, Myths, Roman Empire, Ancient Rome
- Curriculum: Italian History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Italy
- Date: 8
Article abstract: Ovid’s epic of change, the Metamorphoses, provided what became the best-known poetic accounts of Rome’s gods, heroes, and history to the death of Julius Caesar.
Summary of Event
The Metamorphoses (English translation, 1567) by Ovid is a Latin epic poem of fifteen books, written in 11,983 lines of dactylic hexameter, the metrical form of Homer’s Iliad (c. 750 b.c.e.; English translation, 1611) and Vergil’s Aeneid (c. 29-19 b.c.e.; English translation, 1553). The poem is not so much a story as a collection of...
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