Ovid's Metamorphoses: Love and Transformation

About this episode

Catherine explores Ovid's Metamorphoses, focusing on themes of love and transformation through Greek myths.

Send Catherine a text Message “All things change; nothing perishes.”-- Ovid Ovid was a Roman poet who wrote his master work, The Metamorphoses or "Transformations," in 8 C.E.. He weaves more than 250 Greek myths together in one long poem to tell a story of transformation, and explore the complexities of love as an agent of change. Ovid's voice has been influential over the centuries. The Metamorphoses was an important touchstone for Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other artists and thi...

People in this episode

Host: Catherine Svehla

Topics covered

• transformation
• love
• Greek myths
• Ovid
• literature
• change

Keywords

• Ovid
• Metamorphoses
• transformation
• love
• Greek myths
• literature
• poetry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Metamorphoses

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