His charming and graceful versions, full of life and interest, express his humanist approach, his feeling for pathos, and his endless curiosity and delight in human affairs. In the Metamorphoses Ovid retells stories from the Greek myths, arranging them in roughly chronological order, from the origins of the world to his own times. Each Book is arranged in paragraphs, with each paragraph headed by the corresponding line reference in the Latin text.

The Text is fully hyper-linked to the Mythological index and vice versa. With illustrations by Hendrik Goltzius (The Netherlands, 1558-1617) courtesy of LACMA and the Rijksmuseum.īook I (Chaos, Four Ages, Flood, Daphne, Io, Syrinx, Phaethon)īook II (Phaethon’s fall, Callisto, Coronis, Aglauros, Europa)īook III (Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus)īook IV (Pyramus, Leucothoe, Salmacis, Ino, Cadmus, Perseus)īook V (Perseus, Calliope, Proserpine, Arethusa, The Pierides)īook VI (Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas)īook VII (Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, Myrmidons, Procris)īook VIII (Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon and Baucis)īook IX (Hercules, Alcmene, Iole, Galanthis, Dryope,Byblis, Iphis)īook X (Orpheus, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Venus and Adonis, Atalanta)īook XI (Death of Orpheus, Midas, Peleus, Ceyx, Alcyone, Aesacus)īook XII (Rumour, Cycnus, Caeneus, Lapiths and Centaurs, Achilles)īook XIII (Ajax, Ulysses, Polyxena, Hecuba, Memnon, Galatea, Glaucus)īook XIV (Scylla, Sibyl, Polyphemus, Circe, Picus, Pomona, Romulus)īook XV (Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Cipus, Aesculapius, The Caesars) A Complete English Translation and Mythological Index

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