For 10 points,  identify this work by Ovid.
This work parodies epic tradition by describing the death of  Hercules, then having Alcmena narrate his birth and describe the  intercession of Galanthis. In its final book, it claims that the earth is a  living creature, since the Symplegades have died out and then it provides  a list of lakes whose water affects the mind. This poem ends with the  lines "If truth at all is stablished by poetic prophecy, my fame shall live to  all eternity" in (*) A.D. Melville's translation. This poem spends time  describing Pythagoras and his doctrine of metempsychosis, and like Hesiod, it  opens with a description of the five ages of man. Including Julius Caesar and  Romulus as its subjects, its last book centers on apotheosis. For 10 points,  identify this work by Ovid.
This work parodies epic tradition by describing the death of  Hercules, then having Alcmena narrate his birth and describe the  intercession of Galanthis.
Metamorphoses