Metamorphosis

Written by Ovid in ??? Metamorphosis is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework completed in AD 8

The Metamorphosis is a collection of stories about the character's transformations

• Book I: Cosmogony, Ages of Man, Gigantes, Daphne, Io;
• Book II: Phaëton, Callisto, Jupiter and Europa;
• Book III: Cadmus, Actaeon, Echo, Narcissus, and Pentheus;
• Book IV: Pyramus and Thisbe, Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Perseus and Andromeda.
• Book V: Phineus, the Rape of Proserpina;
• Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Philomela and Procne;
• Book VII: Medea, Cephalus and Procris;
• Book VIII: Nisos and Scylla, Daedalus and Icarus, Baucis and Philemon;
• Book IX: Herakles, Byblis;
• Book X: Eurydice, Hyacinth, Pygmalion, Myrrha, Adonis, Atalanta, Cyparissus;
• Book XI: Orpheus, Midas, Alcyone and Ceyx, Aesacus;
• Book XII: Iphigeneia, Centaurs, Akhillues;
• Book XIII: the Sack of Troy, Aeneas;
• Book XIV: Scylla, Aeneas, Romulus;
• Book XV: Pythagoras, Hippolytus, Aesculapius, Caesar.[1]

• The transformations of the character's indicate their inner essence. For instance the character who becomes a weeping stone.

Story of Arachne

Arachne is a brilliant weaver and thinks herself greater than Minerva

Philosophy