Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
Author: first_name:  Publius (Ovid)
last_name: Ovidius Naso
Language: English
Year: 1904

Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium of Greek and Roman mythology, valuable not only as a guide to the study of ancient literature and religion but also as an aid to understanding and appreciating later literature since it has been studied and often alluded to by educated Western writers.

Mutability is not only the subject of the poem but the essence of Ovid’s narrative technique. The subjec