Poema "Metamorfozy" — samoye znachitel'noye, yarkoye i effektnoye proizvedeniye Ovidiya, nad kotorym on rabotal shest' let. Zvonkim, chekannym slogom poet pereskazyvayet udivitel'nyye istorii grecheskikh i rimskikh mifov, v kotorykh lyudi — voley, karoy ili milost'yu bogov — prevrashchayutsya v zhivotnykh i rasteniya, kamni i zvezdy.