In 8 CE, the Roman poet Ovid published his magnum opus, his Metamorphoses, an epic poem that chronicles the history of the world through myth from creation to the recent deification of Julius Caesar. The poem’s central theme is change and transformation. Ovid shows that nothing remains fixed, that people, gods, and the world around them are in constant flux. Many of the tales he describes feature characters transformed physically or emotionally.…
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