Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Roman poet Ovid provides a vivid portrait of the god of Sleep’s domain in his 15-book account of the creation and history of the world. “In the midst of the cavern stands a lofty couch of ebony wood, dark in colour, covered with black draperies, feather-soft, where the god himself lies, his limbs relaxed in luxurious weariness” (11:592-632).

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(English) Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. A.D. Melville. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.