TY - BOOK AU - Ovid AU - Riley,Henry T. TI - The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII AV - PA PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Classical literature KW - Latin poetry -- Translations into English KW - Fables, Latin -- Translations into English KW - Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry KW - Mythology, Classical -- Poetry N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses; Release date is 2007-06-08; Louise Hope, Steve Schulze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII" by Ovid is a Latin narrative poem written in 8 CE. This masterwork chronicles the history of the world from creation to Julius Caesar's deification through over 250 transformation myths. Spanning themes from divine comedy to vengeful gods and passionate love, the poem defies simple classification as it shifts between tones and stories. With gods humiliated by Cupid and mortals elevated above the divine, Ovid inverts the expected order, making transformation itself the constant in a world where nothing remains unchanged. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765 ER -