Ovid uses widely separated nounadjective pairs, poetic word order, omission, poetic plurals, greek nouns. Publius ovidius naso known as ovid in the englishspeaking world, was a roman poet who lived during the reign of augustus. Latin elegy and narratology the ohio state university. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 3. Along with virgil and horace, ovid is one of the three canonical poets of latin literature, generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. Papers of the liverpool latin seminary v, liverpool, c. A narrare il mutare delle forme in corpi nuovi mi spinge lestro. Andersons edition, with my own addition of macrons. The work is a collection of mythological and legendary stories, many taken from greek sources, in which transformation metamorphosis plays a role, however minor.
The completed commentary is an extraordinary accomplishment, to be celebrated by students and scholars of latin literature in general and not only of ovid. He was a contemporary of the older virgil and horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of latin literature. Metamorphoses ovid from wikimedia commons, the free media repository. In other words, your work must not be done on the fly. An xml version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system. For health reasons he has recently passed the maintenance of the library to someone new who will continue it in the same spirit.