Metamorphoses

Ovid's epic of transformation, desire, and divine caprice

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora

The Fifteen Books

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The Table of Transformations

Every metamorphosis in Ovid's masterwork, catalogued and interconnected

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"Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old.
Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly
Contrives to change one shape to another."

— Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV