Abstract
Ovide Moralisé of the early fourteenth century is much more than a translation into Old French of the first-century Latin Metamorphoses of Ovid. It has long been observed that mediaeval translators were not driven by a passion for "accuracy," or torn by a sense of the futility of their task as their modern counterparts have been. As a comparison of the two texts clearly shows, the mediaeval poet augmented Ovid's work where he found it lacking, displaying an encyclopaedic erudition in the process. The author of Ovide Moralise also adapted the pagan content of Ovid's Metamorphoses to convey Christian dogma to his audience. Every narrative element, every character, and every symbol is employed to represent a Christian significance by means of allegorical exegeses which are as long as or longer than the passages they explicate.
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