Forms in Flux: Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses

"Some sisters said such things could never be, while others were convinced that anything was in the power of true deities---" -The Metamorphoses, Book 4, by Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum Ovid wove Greek myths of transformation to create his masterwork, The Metamorphoses. This poem describes a world of shapeshifting, ambiguity, and forms in flux. Of endless transformations instigated by passion: passionate feelings, fantasies, pleas, prayers, and convictions. This episode contains a coup...