Ovid based these tales on Greek myths, albeit often with stylistic adaptations. Not unlike many works of classical literature this has been a rich cultural resource ever since including authors from Chaucer and Shakespeare to, more recently Ted Hughes, and composers from Gluck and Offenbach to Britten. The work as a whole inverts the accepted order, elevating humans and human passions while making the gods and their desires and conquests objects of low humor.I read this both with the Sunday Morning Group and as the text for a University of Chicago weekend retreat. Apollo comes in for particular ridicule as Ovid shows how irrational love can confound the god out of reason. Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero. The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in. The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid's work, is love-be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor (Cupid). Ovids Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature. The Metamorphoses is a poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.
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