Transcription of OVID'S METAMORPHOSES
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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.
ordered the clouds and vapours to exist, and thunder to shake the minds of human beings, and winds that create lightning -bolts and flashes. The world’s maker did not allow these, either, t o possess the air indiscriminately; as it is they are ... But these progeny also despising the gods wer e savage, violent, and eager for
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