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Includes selected illustrations from the unfinished ovid cycle by hendrik goltzius the netherlands, 15581617. The national endowment for the humanities provided support for entering this text. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading metamorphoses oxford worlds classics. Read ovids metamorphoses bks 1 5 online, read in mobile or kindle.
Ovids metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of western literature, inspiring artists and writers from titian to shakespeare to salman rushdie. Intended for the law he instead took up poetry, writing the amores, and the art of love ars amatoria, works which caused offence in some quarters, including amongst the ruling dynasty. Metamorphoses ovid, roman poet best known for the metamorphoses 43b. The metamorphoses of ovid, books viiixv by ovid free ebook.
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