foreground his favoured topics and to embody the key themes of the Metamorphoses. The narrative and motivic scope is further widened through several intertextual references; the literary predecessors are therefore not only used as source material but also to enrich the mythological landscape presented in the Metamorphoses.

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Scholars have found it difficult to place the Metamorphoses in a genre. The poem has been considered as an epic or a type

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