Pythagoras links the myths in Ovid’s book in the constant changes seen in nature, and advocates vegetarianism. Then King Numa’s wife dictates to him the laws of Rome.
Metamorphoses
Romulus ploughs the boundary of the city of Rome, then defeats the Sabine king Tatius, marries his daughter, and is eventually taken to be the god Quirinus.
The god of the seasons and gardens falls in love with a devoted gardener, but can’t woo her successfully when posing as someone else.
The faithful king turned into a woodpecker, Aeneas’s long war against Turnus, his founding of the city of Alba, and promotion to deity on his death.
Ulysses visits Circe’s island, where his crew are turned into swine. When she tries to do the same with him, he refuses. They marry and spend a year together.
A survivor from Ulysses’ crew gives a brief account of the encounter between Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus, and its outcome.
Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.
Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation.
Galatea falls in love with Acis, son of a river-god, but the Cyclops Polyphemus is in love with Galatea and is murderously jealous of Acis.
Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana.
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