Which Roman poet composed 'The Metamorphoses', a 15-book Latin narrative poem weaving together over 250 mythological tales of transformation from the creation of the world to Julius Caesar?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

  1. Step 1: Completed in 8 CE shortly before Emperor Augustus banished the poet to Tomis on the Black Sea, this work is the single greatest literary repository of classical mythology.
  2. Step 2: Ovid chronicled legendary transformations, including Apollo and Daphne, Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, and Pygmalion, unifying them through the philosophical motif that "all things change, nothing perishes."
Answer
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Why not the others: 'Virgil' Virgil composed the Roman national epic 'The Aeneid', as well as the pastoral 'Eclogues' and agricultural 'Georgics'; 'Horace' Horace was an Augustan lyric poet celebrated for his 'Odes', 'Epodes', and the poetic treatise 'Ars Poetica'; 'Lucretius' Lucretius was an Epicurean philosophical poet who wrote 'De Rerum Natura' (On the Nature of Things).

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