Genre

Epic poetry of various genres: love, didactic, tragic, and comic

Point of View

Varied

Tense

Past

Setting

Imperial Rome

Foreshadowing

Pygmalion’s successful creation foreshadows Orpheus’s reunion with Eurydice; Ovid foreshadows the permanence of his own work.

Major Conflict

Mortals and the gods struggle.

Rising Action

Rome rises.

Climax

Rome is founded.

Falling Action

Ovid predicts a great future for Rome.