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The Ovid Library

The Ovid Library

By: Ovid
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Summary
 Love changes us. Power transforms us. Fate has a taste for irony.

The Ovid Library brings the works of Ovid to life in full: tales of gods and mortals, desire and betrayal, wit and exile, bodies altered and hearts undone. From the dazzling transformations of the Metamorphoses to the intimate voices of the Heroides and the playful provocations of his love poetry, these are stories that have survived because they still know us.

Come for the myths. Stay for the mischief, beauty, cruelty, longing, and the poet who understood that nothing, not even we ourselves, remains unchanged.Public domain
Episodes
  • Metamorphoses Book 3 Part 2

    Metamorphoses Book 3 Part 2
    Nov 11 2026
    In which a nymph’s sorrowful love meets its echoing response amid the woods, whilst a youth’s fatal enchantment with his own reflection unveils the torment of self-adoration. Nearby, the fierce resistance against Bacchus’ revelries culminates in a tragic fury that rends kin and convictions alike beneath a shadowed mountain’s watchful gaze.
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    24 mins
  • Metamorphoses Book 3 Part 1

    Metamorphoses Book 3 Part 1
    Nov 8 2026
    In which the exile Cadmus, guided by the god Apollo, encounters a fearsome serpent and sows its deadly teeth into the earth, from which armed men arise to aid him in founding Thebes, while the huntress Diana’s wrath transforms the proud hunter Actaeon into a stag, doomed to fall by his own hounds. Meanwhile, the goddess Juno conspires against the mortal Semelé, whose fatal wish leads to the birth of Bacchus, as the fates weave their mysterious designs upon the lives of gods and men.
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    21 mins
  • Metamorphoses Book 2 Part 2

    Metamorphoses Book 2 Part 2
    Nov 5 2026
    In which a once-virtuous nymph suffers a cruel transformation wrought by a queen scorned, setting her upon a tragic path intertwined with her unsuspecting son, whilst a conceited bird narrates its own fall from favour to a goddess's dismay. Elsewhere, divine loves and jealousies contrive strange metamorphoses and fateful pursuits, as gods don beguiling forms and mortals find themselves caught between peril and enchantment beneath the ever-watchful heavens.
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    20 mins
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