Ovid · AD 8 · Epic and mythological poetry

The complete
Metamorphoses.

All fifteen books and 11,986 Latin lines, aligned with Brookes More’s public-domain blank-verse translation.

780 lines

Book I

Creation and the first transformations

875 lines

Book II

Phaethon and the order of heaven

III

733 lines

Book III

Cadmus and the calamities of Thebes

804 lines

Book IV

Forbidden tales and the house of Perseus

678 lines

Book V

Perseus, Ceres, and Proserpina

721 lines

Book VI

Arachne, Niobe, and Tereus

VII

865 lines

Book VII

Medea, Theseus, and plague

VIII

871 lines

Book VIII

Minos, Daedalus, and Meleager

797 lines

Book IX

Hercules and transformations of desire

739 lines

Book X

Orpheus, Pygmalion, and loss

795 lines

Book XI

Midas, Peleus, Ceyx, and Alcyone

XII

628 lines

Book XII

The Trojan War and the Lapiths

XIII

968 lines

Book XIII

Ajax, Ulysses, and the fall of Troy

XIV

852 lines

Book XIV

Aeneas and the myths of Italy

880 lines

Book XV

Pythagoras, Caesar, and Rome

Latin: Hugo Magnus (1892) · English: Brookes More (1922) · Digital texts: Perseus Digital Library