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Roman Poets and Mythographers

Apuleius | this author wrote the Golden Ass (also known as the Metamorphoses), which is an intriguing account of ancient mystery religion and myth

Catullus | Catullus created beautiful lyric poems that often were inspired by love

Horace | the Odes of this Latin poet are especially admired

Ovid | Ovid is the poet who wrote the brilliant Metamorphoses (which is a charming and delightful collection of mythological stories)

Propertius | this poet is remembered for his elegies

Virgil | Virgil (also spelled Vergil) is the author of the Aeneid (a vast poem of Roman mythological "history", inspired in part by Homer's much earlier works)

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Metamorphoses

This book contains translations of the engaging stories written by the Roman poet Ovid. Ovid took Greek mythology as his inspiration, and transformed diverse legends into an elegant compilation, with the idea of metamorphosis or change as his guiding principle.

Bulfinch's Mythology

Mythology

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

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