The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV
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TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido: - text
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses
Release date is 2008-07-16
Louise Hope, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
"The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV" by Ovid is a Latin narrative poem written in 8 CE. This second half of Ovid's magnum opus continues his chronicle of transformation myths within a sweeping mythico-historical framework. Through over 250 interconnected tales told in dactylic hexameter, the poem defies simple classification, blending epic grandeur with playful subversion. Love—both divine and mortal—remains the driving force, as gods are humiliated by passion and humans elevated through their transformations, creating an inverted cosmos where desire confounds reason and permanence dissolves into endless change. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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