Books—Dream—Stories: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

This article examines the structural and thematic parallels between Ovid's *Metamorphoses* and Neil Gaiman's comic series *The Sandman*, arguing that the interpretive skills used for one enhance understanding of the other. Both works employ complex narrative architectures centered on transformation and storytelling, drawing on diverse literary, mythological, and cultural sources. *The Sandman* features Dream, a shape-shifting embodiment of stories and imagination, whose narrative arcs reflect themes of change and loss akin to those in Ovid’s epic poem, which is organized into fifteen books and three pentads exploring divine myth, human myth, and history. The article highlights specific correspondences, such as layered storytelling, motifs of blood transforming into flowers, and the presence of ravens, demonstrating how Gaiman’s series reinterprets and extends Ovidian themes within a modern mythic framework.