Latin Poet Ovid: "Metamorphoses" Excerpts on Earth on Fire
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Metamorphoses or Transformations:
The poem Metamorphoses or Transformations is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, and is considered his magnum opus.
The poem tells of the history of the world, and of particular interest here is cataclysmic events that focus on major Earth changes with an emphasis on heat and fire. It describes how everything was burning, including rivers and river banks. Some waterways actually dry up. Others may boil, perhaps because of radiation, friction from the earth's moving crust, magma coming to the surface, combustible gas and substances burning, and fire rain from above.