| Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism. |
| As you must be a rather cultivated person to be reading this section of the paper, you probably have your own idea of Ovid and his Metamorphoses. |
| He was more likely to be a close reader of one of the several French translations of Ovid which were available to him. |
| As the son of an old equestrian family, Ovid was sent to Rome for his education. |
| Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians. |
| And I think out of that, in Ovid, Shakespeare gets something of the wondrousness, the marvellousness of the human personality. |
