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Metamorphoses

Name: Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid

Narrative poem by Ovid

Written workliterary workQ184742

Also known as Ov. Met.

Author: Ovid
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-22
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Language: Classical Latin
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1.Stated in PHI Latin TextsRetrieved 2021-02-17
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, Latin
Genre: epic poem

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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.

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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia(1757)
The Death of Hyacinth(1752)
Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)(1750)
Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)(1750)
Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses(1750)
Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse(1750)
Hercules(1744)
Polifemo(1735)
Perseus with Minerva Showing the Head of Medusa(1718)
Acis and Galatea(1718)
Nymph and Satyr(1716)
Death of Adonis(1710)
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo(1708)
Birth of Adonis(1700)
Acis et Galatée(1686)
Bacchus and Ariadne(1680)
The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes(1664)
Faëton(1663)
Hecuba's Revenge(1650)
Harbour Scene with Grieving Heliades(1640)
Transformation of Women into Magpies(1635)
Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto(1634)
The Abduction of Europa(1632)
Andromeda Chained to the Rocks(1630)
Venus and Adonis(1629)
Wooded Pool with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus(1627)
Paysage au dieu fleuve. Paysage de Grottaferrata (left half of Venus and Adonis)(1625)
Vénus et Adonis. Paysage de Grottaferrata (right half of Venus and Adonis)(1625)
Perseus and Andromeda(1622)
Apollo and Daphne(1622)
Perseus Freeing Andromeda(1621)
Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops(1616)
Boreas abducting Orithyia(1615)
Apollo and Daphne(1615)
The Death of Adonis(1614)
Vertumnus and Pomona(1613)
Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting(1611)
Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1614)(1610)
Dying Adonis(1609)
Poesie(1600)
Euridice(1600)
Venus and Adonis(1597)
Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children(1591)
Venus, Adonis and Cupid(1591)
Venus and Adonis(1587)
Perseus Freeing Andromeda(1575)
Persée et Andromède(1561)
Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio ridotte da Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara in ottava rima(1561)
The Wedding of Mercury and Herse(1560)
The Rape of Proserpine(1560)
The Fall of Phaeton(1533)
The Metamorphosis of Hermaphrodite and Salmacis(1520)
Sleeping Endymion(1507)
The Death of Procris(1495)
Metamorphose(1484)
Amoryus and Cleopes(1449)
Les fables d'Ovide Methamorphoseos(1400)
Narcisus et Dané(1200)
Jupiter and Semele
Ariane et Bacchus
The Death of Hyacinthus
Wedding of Bacchus and Ariadne
Mercury and Herse
Tsefal i Prokris
La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
Actéon
Thésée
Persée
Phaëton
Apollo and Daphne
Cadmus et Hermione

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Title: Metamorphoseon libri
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2017-11-09
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List of characters: list of Metamorphoses characters
Has version, edition or translation: Metamorphoses (Ovidius)/Liber XI language: Russian
Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide language: French · released: 1800
Les Métamorphoses language: French · released: 1767
Les Métamorphoses language: French · released: 1866
Metamorphoses language: German · released: 1798
Metamorphosen language: German
Les Métamorphoses language: French · released: 1850
Ovid Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation language: English · released: 2004
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Metamorphoses language: English, Latin · released: 1921 · translator: Frank Justus Miller
Q107981822 language: Polish · released: 1933
Metamorphoses, Books I–VIII language: English · released: 2004
The. xv. Booke of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis language: English · released: 1567
Ovide moralisé language: Old French · released: 14th century
Ovide moralisé en prose (first version) language: Middle French · released: 15th century
Metamorphoses (English, 1960) language: English · released: 1960
La Métamorphose d'Ovide figurée language: Middle French
Ovide moralisé en prose (second version) language: Middle French
Le Metamorfosi language: Italian · translator: Lorenzo Spirito Gualtieri
Transformacions language: Old Catalan · translator: Francesc Alegre
Ovidio methamorphoseos vulgare language: medieval Italian · translator: Giovanni Bonsignori
Metamorphoses released: May 17, 2016 · publisher: Penguin Classics · distribution format: hardcover
Derivative work: Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse
Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto
Apollo et Hyacinthus
Così fan tutte
Acis and Galatea
Acis et Galatée
Hercules
Venus and Adonis
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Euridice
Cadmus et Hermione
Il Pigmalione
Andromeda Chained to the Rocks
Daphne
The Abduction of Europa
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Scylla et Glaucus
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Phaëton
Nymph and Satyr
Venus and Adonis
The Death of Procris
Perseus Freeing Andromeda
The Death of Hyacinthos
Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe
Pierides
Thésée
The Death of Hyacinthus
Persée
Vénus et Adonis. Paysage de Grottaferrata (right half of Venus and Adonis)
The Fall of Phaeton
Perseus and Andromeda
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis
Death of Adonis
Venus, Adonis and Cupid
Echo and Narcissus
Andromeda
Apollo and Daphne
The Metamorphosis of Hermaphrodite and Salmacis
La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
The Death of Adonis
Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1614)
Venus and Adonis
Vertumnus and Pomona
The Death of Hyacinth
The Rape of Proserpine
Ceres in the House of Hecuba
Byblis
Andromeda
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Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops
Ariane et Bacchus
Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting
Persée et Andromède
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Country of origin: Ancient Rome
Roman Empire
Members / parts: Q63215686 section: 1-4 · volume: 1
The Creation section: 5-88 · volume: 1
Four Ages section: 89-150 · volume: 1
Baucis and Philemon
Pyramus and Thisbe
Characters: Daedalus
Icarus
Different from: The Golden Ass
The Metamorphosis
Main subject: Roman mythology
Founded: 0s(0002–0008) sourcing circumstances: circa
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1.Stated in Q110629853
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Form of creative work: poem
Entry in abbreviations table: Ov. Met. used by: Perseus Digital Library
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1.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/abbrevhelp
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First line: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
Copyright status: public domain
Last line: si quid habent veri vatum praesagia, vivam.
Narrative motif: mysterious punishments in otherworld section: IV · line(s): 457
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1.Stated in Motif-Index of Folk-Literaturesites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Content/f.htmRetrieved 2022-12-24
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Depicted by: Metamorphoses Room

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