<span>Caption: "Under the patronage of Emperor Augustus poetry reached a high level. The three great poets in Augustan Age, 43 B.C. to 14 A.D., were Virgil, Horace and Ovid. The greatest work of Ovid is the longest poem of 11,000 hexameters, <i>Metamorphoses</i>. It is highly imaginative collection of Greek and Gerco-German myths. It sets forth the change of form which people and things had undergone from the creation of world to his day. Julius Caesar changes into a star! Love is the dominant theme in the collection of stories, some great, some trivial. All are written with a cold cynicism, are lively in imagination, and are most ingeniously linked together like the tales of the </span><span><i>Arabian Nights</i>. The <i>Metamorphoses</i> has had an immense influence on modern literature. Meres, in praising Shakespeare for his comedies and tragedies, wrote in the year, 1598, "The sweete wittie soul of Ovid liues in mellifluous and honey tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis." The name of the printer, Helizabeth, indicates that the widow of de Rusconibus continued the printshop after her husband's death. The woodcuts, rather primitive, follow the usual custom of having the character indicated by letter or name inside the frame. They also occasionally portray more than one incident in the same setting."Original Leaves from Famous BooksOtto F. Ege Collection</span>

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