Metamorphoses - Ovid's Mythological Transformations or Metamorphoses
Ovid's history of the world tells the stories of mythological figures who have undergone transformations; hence the title, Metamorphoses.
Paintings inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Public domain English translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In the Metamorphoses (of Transformations) if Ovid, one of Midusmmer Night's Dream-like stories within a story is about the fulfillment of the transgendered blind seer Tiresias' prophecies.
Narcissus and Echo. In Ovids' Metamorphoses, Tiresias warns about the dangers of letting Narcissus get to know himself.
Tiresias tried to warn Pentheus, but the king wanted nothing to do with gods or prophets and so Pentheus wound up being mistaken for a wild animal and torn to pieces.
Narcissus' mother couldn't figure out Tiresias' warning about her son. The seer told her the boy would live a long life as long as he didn't get to know himself. Echo pined away for love of the beautiful lad.
Shakespeare owed a debt to Ovid's
Metamorphoses in his
Midsummer Night's Dream.
Tiresias lost his sight and gained his prophetic skills at the same time -- when he used his transgendering experiences to settle an argument between Jupiter and Juno.
Ovid-based stories of Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe and Cephalus and Procris in Bullfinch.
The Latin text of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
An online concordance to discover patterns in Ovid's
Metamorphoses, a work in which "Ovid has paid much less regard to smooth, logical transition between stories than to complex repetition of themes and images, even to extensive wordplay."
Sources used by Shakespeare for his plays include Ovid's
Fasti and
Metamorphoses.
Perseus' browsable version of Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
A book-by-book outline of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
