What did the Ancients Say Earth is Made of

The 1st words written about our past were from Hesiod about 800bc and dictated to him by the daughters of These Gods could and did Morph and were insanely Violent. Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses. Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas, corpora; ( I intend to speak of forms changed into new Accompanying this theme is often violence, inflicted upon a victim whose transformation becomes part of the natural There is a great variety among the types of transformations that take place: from human to inanimate object (Nileus), constellation (Ariadne s Crown), animal (Perdix); from animal (ants) and fungus (mushrooms) to human; of sex (hyenas); and of colour