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Arthur Golding prints the first complete English Metamorphoses

In 1567 Arthur Golding issued The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, the first complete English Metamorphoses. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1567 Arthur Golding issued The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, the first complete English Metamorphoses. It is not a 1 CE recitation.

Context

English myth in print is a teaching path. Golding’s Protestant moral frames are his, not Ovid’s. Later expurgations still used this base.

Ovid is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Knowledge-access path. High confidence on 1567.

A translation is not an exile letter. Keep Tristia on its own row.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Ovid

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.25 · verified

    The Latin epic is his. Golding and the London book trade made the English book.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Poetry Foundation — OvidPoetry Foundation · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Golding, The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso (1567) — public-domain textProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gutenberg’s Golding text and the Poetry Foundation’s Ovid page independently document the English poem’s public life.

Established: Golding’s complete English Metamorphoses appeared in 1567. Not established: a unique literacy coefficient.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorOvid
  2. contributed toFactArthur Golding prints the first complete English Metamorphoses
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Arthur Golding prints the first complete English Metamorphoses. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-golding-1567

https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-golding-1567

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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