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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.21


Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit.for all the land was mixed with sea and air.


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1. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

28c. and things sensible, being apprehensible by opinion with the aid of sensation, come into existence, as we saw, and are generated. And that which has come into existence must necessarily, as we say, have come into existence by reason of some Cause. Tim. Now to discover the Maker and Father of this Universe were a task indeed; and having discovered Him, to declare Him unto all men were a thing impossible. However, let us return and inquire further concerning the Cosmos,—after which of the Models did its Architect construct it?
2. Cicero, Timaeus, 6 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, 4.6.45-4.6.48 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

4. Ovid, Fasti, 1.65, 1.89, 1.106-1.124 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

1.106. Fire, water, earth, were heaped together as one. 1.107. When, through the discord of its components 1.108. The mass dissolved, and scattered to new regions 1.109. Flame found the heights: air took a lower place 1.110. While earth and sea sank to the furthest depth. 1.111. Then I, who was a shapeless mass, a ball 1.112. Took on the appearance, and noble limbs of a god. 1.113. Even now, a small sign of my once confused state 1.114. My front and back appear just the same. 1.117. Whatever you see: sky, sea, clouds, earth 1.118. All things are begun and ended by my hand. 1.119. Care of the vast world is in my hands alone 1.120. And mine the goverce of the turning pole. 1.121. When I choose to send Peace, from tranquil houses 1.122. Freely she walks the roads, and ceaselessly: 1.123. The whole world would drown in bloodstained slaughter 1.124. If rigid barriers failed to hold war in check.
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.5-1.20, 1.45-1.51, 1.57, 1.72-1.73, 1.76-1.88, 1.262, 1.747, 2.1-2.24, 2.31-2.32, 2.81-2.85, 2.108, 2.210-2.234, 2.237-2.271, 2.285-2.287, 2.293-2.300, 2.304-2.308, 2.327-2.331, 2.367-2.380, 4.181, 4.189 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

6. Ovid, Tristia, 1.8.1, 2.425-2.426 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

7. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.36, 1.48, 1.76-1.77 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



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cameron,alan Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
chaos Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
civil war Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
claudian Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
constantine Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
cosmogony Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209, 257
destruction,of the universe/cosmic Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
dissolution,cosmic dissolution/of the universe Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
dissolution Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
dracontius,universal flux,conception of Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 105
dracontius Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 105
egypt,pharaonic Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 84
ekpyrosis' Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
empedocleo-lucretian background in metamorphoses,love/philia and strife/neikos Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
eschatology Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209, 287
gigantomachy Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
hinds,stephen Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
impietas/impiety/impious Edelmann-Singer et al. (2020), Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 84
janus Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
janus in fasti Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
jerome Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
julius caesar Edelmann-Singer et al. (2020), Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 84
lactantius Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
laudes neronis Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
lucretius Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
mars and venus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
metamorphoses,chaos Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 287
metamorphoses,pygmalion Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
metamorphoses,venus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338
metanarrative perspectives Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 84
orpheus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 287
ovid,adynata Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
ovid,and plato Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
ovid,cosmic eschatology in Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 287
ovid,cosmogony in Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4, 105
ovid,eschatology Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 287
ovid,narrationes,prose summaries of Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
ovid,natural philosophy in exilic corpus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
ovid,paradoxography Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
ovid,presence of,in late antique intellectual culture Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 4
phaethon Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 190
pindar Edelmann-Singer et al. (2020), Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 84
plato/platonism,and myth Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
plato/platonism Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
protagoras,on writing in phaedrus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
protagoras,timaeus Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
roberts,michael Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 105
robinson,thomas m. Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 209
tomis,chaos-like Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
tomis,environmental extremes Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 257
ware,catherine Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 338