Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses Theseus fights against and kills Eurytus, the " fiercest of all the fierce centaurs " at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.

Marino employed him on illustrations to his poem Adone ( untraced ) and on a series of illustrations for a projected edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, took him into his household, and in 1624 enabled Poussin ( who had been detained by commissions in Lyon and Paris ) to rejoin him at Rome.

Byron knew the story of the mythical Myrrha, if not directly through Ovid's Metamorphoses, then at least through Alfieri's Mirra, which he was familiar with.

Ovid narrates the story of Icarus at some length in the Metamorphoses ( viii. 183 – 235 ), and refers to it elsewhere.

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

* In 2010, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre presented a new adaptation of Metamorphoses at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Pan and Syrinx ( Pan og Syrinx ), a vigorous nine-minute symphonic poem inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, was particularly well received at its premiere in 1911, Charles Kjerulf of Politken commenting: " For each note that was added it became more and more sublime.

A third major theme is inconstancy, particularly as manifested in Proteus, whose very name hints at his changeable mind ( in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Proteus is a sea-god forever changing its shape ).

* Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI, at Google Books

Of Celmis, Ovid ( in Metamorphoses iv ) made a story that when Rhea was offended at this childhood companion of Zeus, she asked Zeus to turn him to diamond-hard adamant, like a tempered blade.

The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.

Putnam published Reavey's first book, Faust's Metamorphoses in 1932, a series of twenty vers libre monologues based on Christopher Marlowe's Faust with illustrations by S. W. Hayter who worked with Trevelyan at Atelier 17.

Standard classics were not neglected ( there were memorable performances of Beethoven ’ s Eroica and, in the Centenary Season, with the Huddersfield Choral Society, that composer ’ s Ninth Symphony ) but works as diverse as Hindemith ’ s Symphonic Metamorphoses, Berlioz ’ s Harold in Italy, Prokofiev ’ s Firth Symphony, Respighi ’ s The Pines of Rome, Janacek ’ s Sinfonietta, Holst ’ s The Planets and the Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition figured in Butterworth ’ s early years.

After the Trojan War, the Trojan seer Calchas, like the Theban seeress Manto ( above ), was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died ( Argonautica1. 308 ; Ovid Metamorphoses 1. 516 and 11. 413 ; Strabo 14. 4. 3 ).

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in classical Greek mythology, when the crow told the god Apollo that his lover Coronis was cheating on him with a mortal, he became very angry, and part of that anger was directed at the crow, whose feathers he turned from white to black.

The Delphic oracle at last declared the cause of her illnesses to be the wrath of the offended goddess ; whereupon her father consented to her marriage with Acontius ( Aristaenetus, Epistolae, i. 10 ; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, i, tells the story with different names, see Ctesylla ).

* Metamorphoses at JarreUK

Puppet from " Cabaret of Metamorphoses " of Nikolai ZykovAdult puppeteering is the use of puppets in contexts aimed at adult audiences.

He displayed early talent as a violinist, pianist, and composer, conducting his own choral / orchestral composition ( based on texts from Ovid's Metamorphoses ) at age 13.

Other performances, such as Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, have been done inside, at the foot of Athena's statue.

It is worth recalling at this point a famous katabasis frequently alluded or referred to in Spenser's minor poetry as well as his epic, because its subject is the loss occasioned by the male lover's failure and his displacement of grief into pederasty and poetry: the often misogynist tales Ovid's Orpheus tells in Metamorphoses 10 are depicted as bitter reactions to and reflections of his bungled effort to save Eurydice.

* Metamorphoses ( 2000 ; 2nd place at the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition, Best Writing in the 2000 XYZZY Awards )

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