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Excerpt from Ovid: Select Passages From The Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, composed (probably for recitation) about the same time as the Fasti just before his banishment in 8 a.d., contain a series of such Greek and Latin legends as involve processes of Imm farmatz'on, extending from the creation of the world to the change of Julius Caesar into a star. The outline and materials of the poem were perhaps derived from the 'efepocofipeva of Nicander [b.c. 185 and a similar work by Parthenius, the Greek preceptor of Virgil; but the grouping and treatment, the style, sentiment, and versification of the Metamorphoses are eminently characteristic of Ovid's genius. The work never received the final touch of its author, who, like Virgil, would fain have burnt his masterpiece, rather than let it descend to posterity incomplete and un revised.
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