Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses

About this episode

This episode explores the themes of transformation and shapeshifting in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Send Catherine a text Message "Some sisters said such things could never be, while others were convinced that anything was in the power of true deities---" -The Metamorphoses, Book 4, by Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum Ovid wove Greek myths of transformation to create his masterwork, The Metamorphoses. This poem describes a world of shapeshifting, ambiguity, and forms in flux. Of endless transformations instigated by passion: passionate feelings, fantasies, pleas, prayers, and convictions...

People in this episode

Host: Catherine Svehla

Topics covered

• transformation
• mythology
• shapeshifting
• ambiguity
• passion
• Ovid

Keywords

• Ovid
• Metamorphoses
• transformation
• myth
• shapeshifting
• ambiguity
• passion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Metamorphoses

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