Two hundred and fifty stories of people turned into something else, strung end to end from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. Almost everything later Europe knew about Greek myth, it knew from here.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Metamorphoses that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Henry T. Riley, 1851. Source: Gutenberg 21765, 26073.
The text here is Henry T. Riley’s prose translation, Bohn’s Classical Library, 1851, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebooks 21765 and 26073, set unaltered.
Riley’s own explanatory notes are his and are not printed here.
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