By Ovid
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First released in eight A.D., Ovid’s Metamorphoses continues to be some of the most obtainable and tasty avenues to the riches of Greek mythology. starting with the production of the universe and finishing with the dying and deification of Julius Caesar, Ovid’s masterful epic poem incorporates a wealthy collection of stories, together with these of Jason and the Argonauts, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Trojan conflict, Echo and Narcissus, the slaying of the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, Hercules, Aeneas and Dido, the marriage of Perseus and Andromeda, etc. those tales all have one aspect in universal: transformation. Mortals turn into gods, animals flip to stone, and people become vegetation, bushes, or stars. Mingling pathos, humor, good looks, and cruelty, Ovid finds how the never-ending ebb and circulate of the universe itself is reflected within the frequently paradoxical and constantly arbitrary destiny of the poem’s characters, either human and divine.
A cosmic comedy of manners, Metamorphoses used to be learn with take pleasure in Ovid’s personal time and keeps to allure audiences this day, supplying a treasure trove of delusion and legend from which the full of Western paintings and literature has derived incalculable notion.
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