METAMORPHOSIS

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 28

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) Transformation. The heroic poem of Ovid, in which he recounts the most celebrated my tholos i cal narratives respecting the gods of Greece and R ome, and the changes of this description effected by their supernatural power, is called the Books of Metamorphoses. [s. 748]