# Metamorphoses

by [Ovid](https://localbooks.app/authors/ovid)

- Genres: [서사시](https://localbooks.app/genres/poetry/narrative-poetry), [신화 판타지](https://localbooks.app/genres/fantasy/mythic-fantasy)
- Set in: [로마, 라치오 주, 이탈리아](https://localbooks.app/places/it/lazio/rome); [올림포스산](https://localbooks.app/places/mythic-realms/mount-olympus) (신화 속 세계, not a real place)
- Audience: Adult

## Description

From the shaping of the world out of chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar, Ovid strings together some 250 myths in which people turn into trees, birds, stars and stone. Daphne, Narcissus, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Icarus all appear in fifteen books of fast, witty verse.

## Where to buy

- [Standard Ebooks (ebook)](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ovid/metamorphoses/various-translators)

Read a free sample: https://localbooks.app/books/metamorphoses/read/1 (147 chapters, 130549 words)

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