The document summarizes Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of the greatest works of Latin literature. It discusses that Ovid was a Roman poet who lived from 43 BC to 17/18 AD. The Metamorphoses is an epic poem comprised of 15 books telling 250 stories of transformation, often as a result of divine intervention or punishment. It had profound influence on Western culture throughout the Middle Ages and inspired many later works of art and literature.

1. By Ovid
By: Soliman, Julie Ann B.
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2.  is one of the greatest poets in Rome.
 also masterpiece of Golden Age Latin
literature.
 One of the most-read of all classical works
during the Middle Ages
 continues to exert a profound influence on
Western culture.

3.  Latin
 Around 8 A.D
 Also published in 8 A.D
 Genre -love, didactic, tragic, and comic.
 Have 15 books
 250 stories
 Imperial Rome and Rome

4.  Was born on 20 March 43 BC and died on AD
17/18.
 was born in Sulmo (Sulmona), in
an Apennine valley east of Rome.
 Roman.
 He is a poet.
 Genre(Elegy, drama, epic)
 Ovid was very popular at the time of his
early works, but was later exiled by Augustus
in AD 8.

5. Jupiter
 The king of the gods.
Saturn
 Jupiter’s father.
Juno
 Jupiter’s wife.
Neptune and Dis
 Jupiter’s brother.

6.  The Metamorphoses consists of fifteen books.
They can be divided into six sections. First, the
narrator prays to the gods for inspiration, lays
out his theme (metamorphosis). Second, the
narrator describes the creation of the world. The
third section spans five books. In this section,
Ovid focuses on the gods and their interactions
with mortals. He begins with the theme of divine
rape. In the fourth section, Ovid moves into the
realm of heroes and heroines. The fifth section
moves us closer to the Trojan War. In the sixth
section, which comprises the epilogue, Ovid
prophesies a glorious Roman future and the
immortality of his work.

7. Themes
 Metamorphoses is an exploration of
transformations of all kinds, from the
pedestrian and obvious to the literary and
oblique.
Motifs
 Punishment and Reward
Symbols
 Lost Speech

8. “I know what I am about to do; ignorance of
truth will not deceive me, but love”

9.  In 1613, Spanish poet Luis de Góngora wrote an illustrious
poem titled La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea that retells
the story of Polyphemus, Galatea and Acis found in Book
XIII of the Metamorphoses.
 In 1625, sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini finished his piece
entitled Apollo and Daphne, taken from the episode in
Book 1 in which Apollo, pierced by a love-inducing arrow
from Cupid, pursues the fleeing nymph Daphne. This
episode furthermore has been treated repeatedly in opera,
notably by Jacopo Peri (Dafne) in 1597 and Richard
Strauss (Daphne, with a libretto that deviates significantly
from Ovid's account) in 1938.

10.  Metamorphoses was a considerable influence
on English Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet is
influenced by the story of Pyramus and
Thisbe (Metamorphoses Book 4)
playwright William Shakespeare.