Cosmos, Giants, Ages, and Jove by Ovid 43BC-18 AD
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2016-11-10

Ovid 43 BC – 18 AD
Metamorphoses Part of Book 1, Translated By Brookes More (1922) 1859-1942

Before the ocean and the earth appeared—before the skies had overspread them all—the face of Nature in a vast expanse was naught but Chaos uniformly waste. It was a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap. As yet the sun afforded earth no light, nor did the moon renew her crescent horns; the earth was not suspended in the air exactly balanced by her heavy weight. 

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