Antoninus Liberalis - Definition and Overview

Antoninus Liberalis, Greek grammarian, probably flourished about AD 150.

His only surviving work is the Metamorphoses, a collection of forty-one tales about mythical metamorphoses which is chiefly valuable as a source of mythological knowledge.

This work has no connection to the Metamorphoses written by the poet Ovid or with the Metamorphoses written by Lucius Apuleius.

See Westermann, Mythographi Graeci (1843); Oder, De Antonino Liberali (1886).

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Bibliography

• The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis: A Translation With Commentary, trans. Francis Celoria (Routledge, 1992). ISBN 0415068967. (This is the first English translation of this work.)