One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is
nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovid's sequence of fifteen
witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to
the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and
goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of love.
Frequently translated, imitated and paraphrased.