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OVID'S METAMORPHOSES
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY S. KLINE1 EDITED, COMPILED, AND ANNOTATED BY RHONDA L. KELLEY Figure 1 J. M. W. Turner, Ovid Banished from Rome, 1838. 1 #askline; the footnotes are the editor s unless otherwise indicated; for clarity s sake, all names have been standardized. The METAMORPHOSES by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) was published in 8 , the same year Ovid was banished from Rome by Caesar Augustus. The exact circumstances surrounding Ovid s exile are a literary mystery. Ovid himself claimed that he was exiled for a poem and a mistake, but he did not name the poem or describe the mistake beyond saying that he saw something, the significance of which went unnoticed by him at the time he saw it. Though Ovid had written some very scandalous poems, it is entirely possible that this satirical epic poem was the reason Augustus finally decided to get rid of the man who openly criticized him and flouted his moral reforms.
hurled his bolt of lightning, fractured Olympus and threw Mount Pelion down from Ossa below. Her sons’ dreadful bodies, buried by that mass, drenched Earth with streams of blood, and they say she warmed it to new life, so that a trace of her children might remain, transforming it into the shape of human beings.
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