Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem composed of mythological and legendary tales linked by the theme of transformation, which became one of the most influential works in Western literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin narrative poem
classical Latin literature work
epic poem
approximateCompletionDate 8 CE
associatedWith Augustus
surface form: Emperor Augustus
author Ovid
canonicalStatus major classic of Western literature
closingEpisode deification of Julius Caesar
compositionPeriod early 1st century CE
containsEpisode story of Arachne
story of Baucis and Philemon
Icarus
surface form: story of Daedalus and Icarus

Apollo and Daphne
surface form: story of Daphne and Apollo

story of Narcissus and Echo
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
surface form: story of Orpheus and Eurydice

story of Perseus and Andromeda
Philomela
surface form: story of Philomela

Pygmalion and the Image series
surface form: story of Pygmalion

Pyramus
surface form: story of Pyramus and Thisbe

story of the flood of Deucalion and Pyrrha
containsMythsFrom Greek mythology
Greco-Roman mythology
surface form: Roman mythology
genre epic poetry
mythological narrative
hasEnglishTitle Ovid’s Metamorphoses self-linksurface differs
surface form: Metamorphoses
hasTitleInLatin Metamorphōsēs
influenceOn Baroque painting
Dante Alighieri
European Renaissance literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Milton
Western visual arts
William Shakespeare
opera
literaryForm dactylic hexameter
literaryPeriod Augustan age
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFeature complex narrative framing
elegant and witty style
innovative use of mythological sources
numberOfBooks 15
openingEpisode creation of the world
originalLanguage Latin
placeOfComposition Rome
structure continuous narrative of linked episodes
theme change and instability
love
metamorphosis
power of the gods
transformation

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Κήυξ appearsInWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses
Girl Meets Boy basedOnWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses by Ovid
Latona Fountain influencedBy Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Fasti (in some passages related to early Rome) relatedWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
subject surface form: Ovid’s Fasti
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses
Hippolytus subjectOfWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Ovid’s "Metamorphoses"
Psyche appearsIn Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses
Alcestis (mythological queen) appearsInWork Ovid’s Metamorphoses
subject surface form: Alcestis
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Pygmalion and Galatea influencedBy Ovid’s Metamorphoses
story of Baucis and Philemon primarySource Ovid’s Metamorphoses
story of Baucis and Philemon appearsInBook Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses Book 8
Metamorphōsēs translatedTitle Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses
Actaeon literarySource Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Actaeon appearsIn Ovid’s Metamorphoses
this entity surface form: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 3
Nessus appearsIn Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne inspiredBy Ovid’s Metamorphoses
subject surface form: Apollo and Daphne
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne literarySource Ovid’s Metamorphoses
subject surface form: Apollo and Daphne
this entity surface form: Metamorphoses