Metamorphoses
Sign in to savethumb|Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Key facts
- Poem.first
- 8 CE
- Poem.language
- Latin
- Poem.name
- Metamorphoses
- Poem.image
- Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses, del MCCCCLXXXXVII Adi X del mese di aprile - 1583162 Carta a1r.jpeg
- Poem.caption
- Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497
- Poem.author
- Ovid
- Poem.original_title
- Metamorphoses
- Poem.genre
- Narrative poetry, epic, elegy, tragedy, pastoral (see Contents)
- Poem.meter
- Dactylic hexameter
- Poem.publication_date
- 1471
- Poem.media_type
- Incunable
- Poem.lines
- 11,995
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25 sectionsContents
- Sources and models
- Contents
- Books
- Minor characters
- Themes
- Metamorphosis
- Influence
- Manuscript tradition
- In English translation
- French translation
- The 1557 edition
- Illustrations
- Adaptations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Modern translations
- Secondary sources
- Further reading
- External links
- Latin versions
- English translations
- Analysis
- Audio
- Images
thumb|Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Metamorphoses (, , ) is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework comprising over 250 myths, 15 books, and 11,995 lines.