Metamorphoses (Annotated)

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a vast mythological epic in fifteen books, tracing a continuous history of transformation from the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. Written in elegant dactylic hexameter, it reshapes Greek and Roman myth into a dazzling sequence of stories—Daphne, Narcissus, Pygmalion, Orpheus, and many others—linked by the recurring logic of change. Both playful an...