The Metamorphoses (Metamorphōseōn librī: `Books of Transformations`) is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Although..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses
[play] Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director, Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. The play opened off-Broadway in October 2001 at the Second Stage Theatre. It tran... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(play)
(from the article `fable, parable, and allegory`) ...parallels the story of the creation as told by the Greek poet Hesiod in his Theogony (and the later Roman version of the same event given in ... Ovid`s Metamorphoses is a nexus of some 50 epyllia with shorter episodes. He created a convincing imaginative world with a magical logic of ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/78