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100 1 _aOvid,
_d44 BCE-18?
245 1 4 _aThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses
500 _aRelease date is 2008-07-16
508 _aLouise Hope, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aClassical literature
653 _aLatin poetry -- Translations into English
653 _aFables, Latin -- Translations into English
653 _aMetamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
653 _aMythology, Classical -- Poetry
700 1 _aRiley, Henry T.
_q(Henry Thomas),
_d1816-1878
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26073
999 _c67074
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