Brief Life of Ovid -- Text of Metamorphoses -- Bk. I. Shaping of Changes -- Bk. II. Of Mortal Children and Immortal Lusts -- Bk. III. Wrath of Juno -- Bk. IV. Spinning Yarns and Weaving Tales -- Bk. V. Contests of Arms and Song -- Bk. VI. Of Praise and Punishment -- Bk. VII. Of the Ties That Bind -- Bk. VIII. Impious Acts and Exemplary Lives -- Bk. IX. Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries -- Bk. X. Songs of Orpheus -- Bk. XI. Rome Begins at Troy -- Bk. XII. Around and About the Iliad -- Bk. XIII. Spoils of War and Pangs of Love -- Bk. XIV. Around and About with Aeneas -- Bk. XV. Prophetic Acts and Visionary Dreams -- Contexts -- Ovid in His Time and Ours / Bernard Knox -- Two Anecdotes of Ovid / Seneca the Elder -- Influences, Anxious and Benign -- From Works and Days / Hesiod -- From De rerum natura / Lucretius -- Hymn VI: To Demeter / Callimachus -- From the Aeneid / Virgil -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and Pantomime Dancing / Charles Martin -- Criticism -- [A Work of Such Wide Importance] / J. W. Mackall -- Roman in His Prime / Diane Middlebrook -- Ovid and Universal Contiguity / Italo Calvino -- Daphne, or Metamorphosis / Norman O. Brown -- Persons, Places, and Personifications in the Metamorphoses.