Anonymous ID: faba4c Feb. 25, 2020, 7:58 p.m. No.8250949   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1011

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Ovid

Roman Epic Poet known most for Metamorphoses

 

Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses. Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora; ("I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities;").[24] Accompanying this theme is often violence, inflicted upon a victim whose transformation becomes part of the natural landscape.[25] This theme amalgamates the much-explored opposition between the hunter and the hunted[26] and the thematic tension between art and nature.[27]