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The Metamorphoses
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Ovid's Metamorphoses



1. The Primal Chaos



2. Separation of the elements



3. The earth and sea. The five zones.



4. The four winds




5. Humankind



6. The Golden Age



7. The Silver Age



8. The Bronze Age



9 The giants



10: Jupiter threatens to destroy humankind



11 Lycaon is turned into a wolf



12 Jupiter invokes the floodwaters



13 The Flood



14 The world is drowned



15 Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha
"Triton, showing from the depths his shoulders thick with shells—"



16. They ask Themis for help



17: The human race is re-created



18: Other species are generated.
"Venus’s son replied ‘You may hit every other thing Phoebus,
but my bow will strike you:—’"



19: Phoebus pursues Daphne.



20: Phoebus begs Daphne to yield to him.



21: Daphne becomes the laurel bough.



22: Phoebus honours Daphne.



23: Inachus mourns for Io
"There is a grove in Haemonia,
closed in on every side by wooded cliffs.
They call it Tempe."



24: Jupiter’s rape of Io



25: Jupiter transforms Io to a heifer
—if he refused so slight a gift as a heifer
to the companion of his race and bed,
it might appear no heifer!



26: Juno claims Io and Argus guards her



27: Inachus finds Io and grieves for her



28: Jupiter sends Mercury to kill Argus



29: Mercury tells the story of Syrinx



30: Io is returned to human form
"Saturnia took his eyes and set them into the feathers of her own bird,
and filled the tail with star-like jewels."



31:Phaethon’s parentage



32:Phaethon sets out for the Palace of the Sun.