How was the original Ovid Metamorphoses formatted/punctuated most likely?

1. What is the style of Ovid's Metamorphoses?
2. What is Ovid's Metamorphoses story about?
3. What is the transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses?
4. What is the significance of the title Metamorphoses?

What is the style of Ovid's Metamorphoses?

Metamorphoses, poem in 15 books, written in Latin about 8 ce by Ovid. It is written in hexameter verse.

What is Ovid's Metamorphoses story about?

Ovid's Metamorphoses explains history. It explains history from the creation of the world through the death of Julius Caesar as a series of transformations.

What is the transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses?

The changes are of many kinds: from human to animal, animal to human, thing to human, human to thing. Some changes are reversed: human to animal to human. Sometimes the transformations are partial, and physical features and personal qualities of the earlier being are preserved in mutated form.

What is the significance of the title Metamorphoses?

As its title suggests, Metamorphoses is an exploration of transformations of all kinds, from the pedestrian and obvious to the literary and oblique.