Roman gods, imperial cult, Virgil, Ovid, household religion, syncretism, and Roman ritual practice.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books I-VII, for Roman mythology and transformation-story comparison.
The second half of Ovid's Metamorphoses for Roman mythology, transformation, apotheosis, and flood-story comparison.
Dryden's public-domain Aeneid for Roman epic, descent to the underworld, fate, gods, empire, and hero comparison.
Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Lucius, dabbling in Thessalian witchcraft, is transformed into an ass and passes through the hands of robbers, priests and magistrates until the goddess Isis restores him and he is initiated into her mysteries. Contains the celebrated inset myth of Cupid and Psyche. William Adlington's 1566 English translation, complete in 48 chapters.
public-domain Riley translation loaded
Books I-VII are indexed from Project Gutenberg #21765; Books VIII-XV are indexed from Project Gutenberg #26073.
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EMBEDDING/SEARCH FLAG (the task's explicit ask): the Roman mythology texts (ovid-metamorphoses-books-1-7, ovid-metamorphoses-books-8-15, aeneid) show ~0% embedded coverage in the corpus audit, so they are under-served by semantic search. FIX = run embedding/search backfill (admin_backfill_embeddings / admin_rebuild_search_index) on these texts; do NOT attempt to fix embeddings by importing duplicate Ovid/Virgil texts (they are already present and PD). Greek mythology texts are largely embedded already (~91% per the launch audit); the gap is specifically the Roman set.
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