Though there was land and sea and air, it was unstable land, unswimmable water, air needing light. There was no Titan yet, shining his light on the world, or waxing Phoebe renewing her white horns, or the earth hovering in surrounding air balanced by her own weight, or watery Amphitrite stretching out her arms along the vast shores of the world. You, gods, since you are the ones who alter these, and all other things, inspire my attempt, and spin out a continuous thread of words, from the world's first origins to my own time.īefore there was earth or sea or the sky that covers everything, Nature appeared the same throughout the whole world: what we call chaos: a raw confused mass, nothing but inert matter, badly combined discordant atoms of things, confused in the one place. I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms.
Bk I:601-621 Jupiter transforms Io to a heifer.Bk I:525-552 Daphne becomes the laurel bough.Bk I:504-524 Phoebus begs Daphne to yield to him.Bk I:438-472 Phoebus kills the Python and sees Daphne.Bk I:416-437 Other species are generated.Bk I:381-415 The human race is re-created.Bk I:313-347 Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha.
Bk I:244-273 Jupiter invokes the floodwaters.Bk I:199-243 Lycaon is turned into a wolf.Bk I:177-198 Jupiter threatens to destroy humankind.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved
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