September 29, 2011
Posted by cafh
The Metamorphoses and the Perfumes of Arabia
The Metamorphoses is an epic poem by the Roman poet Ovid, which was completed in AD 8, while the title means simply ‘changes’ or ‘transformations’. The recurring theme of the Metamorphoses is Love, because the poem’s hero is Amor or Cupid, a minor deity in the Roman pantheon; the whole work is designed to demonstrate [...]