* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV, 581 – 608 ;

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses xiv. 248-308

Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.

The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus ' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses ( VIII: 183-235 ) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public.

** Metamorphoses by Ovid ( Greek and Roman mythology )

* Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI 140, VII 74, 94, 174, 177, 194, 241, XIV 44, 405.

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

* Ovid Illustrated-large site from the University of Virginia, where many depictions of Leda and the Swan from Renaissance and later editions of the Metamorphoses will ( eventually ) be found.

Once, as Ovid relates in Metamorphoses XI Dionysus found his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr Silenus, missing.

The classic version is by Ovid, found in book 3 of his Metamorphoses ( completed 8 AD ).

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.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses

In accounts by the Bibliotheca ( 3. 8. 1 ) and Ovid ( Metamorphoses I. 219-239 ), Lycaon serves human flesh to Zeus, wanting to know if he is really a god.

* The poem Metamorphoses is written by Ovid.

* After completing Metamorphoses, Ovid begins the Fasti ( Festivals ), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses i. 588 – 747

* Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 299-381.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 458-9 ; VI, 172-76 & 403-11.

Another of the myths is told most anecdotally by Ovid, in Metamorphoses.

* 1993: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press

The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.

Ovid writes in his Metamorphoses of a marketplace in the underworld where the dead convene to exchange news and gossip.

In the sixth book of Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the story of the rape of Philomela, daughter of Pandion I, King of Athens.

Ovid in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the deification of Romulus and his wife Hersilia, who are given the new names of Quirinus and Hora respectively.

Ovid tells in Book two of his Metamorphoses that Erichthonius was born without a mother.

* Ovid, Fasti ( Book III, 167 – 258 )

* Ovid, Ars Amatoria ( Book I, 102 )

* Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

Perhaps the most famous version of the myth is given us through Ovid in his Metamorphoses ( Book II ).

The Roman poet Ovid ( 1st century BC – 1st century AD ) tells a similar myth of Four Ages in Book 1. 89 – 150 of the Metamorphoses.

Jane Newman's feminist analysis of the poem focuses on its relationship to the myth of Philomel and Procne from Book VI of the Metamorphoses by Ovid.

Feralia was an ancient Roman public festival celebrating the Manes ( Roman spirits of the dead, particularly the souls of deceased individuals ) which fell on the 21st of February as recorded by Ovid in Book II of his Fasti.

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

Supple ’ s adaptations for the theatre include: Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( with Dario Fo & Alan Cumming ); Billy Budd ( with David Holman ); The Epic of Gilgamesh ; Grimm Tales and More Grimm Tales ( with Carol Ann Duffy ); The Jungle Book ; Haroun and the Sea of Stories ( with Salman Rushdie & David Tushingham ); Midnight's Children ( with Salman Rushdie & Simon Reade ); Tales from Ovid ( with Ted Hughes & Simon Reade ); Beasts and Beauties ( with Carol Ann Duffy & Melly Still ); One Thousand and One Nights ( with Hanan Al Shaykh )

Ovid gives a poetic account of the priesthood of Nemi in his Fasti, Book 3 ( on the month of March ), noting that the lake of Nemi was " sacred to antique religion ," and that the priest who dwelt there " holds his reign by strong hands and fleet feet, and dies according to the example he set himself.

The tree is mentioned by Roman poet Ovid, in Book I: 89 – 112 " The Golden Age " of his Metamorphoses:

Ovid returns to the theme of war several times throughout the Amores, especially in poem nine of Book I, an extended metaphor comparing soldiers and lovers ( Militat omnis amans, " every lover is a soldier " I. 9 ln 1 ).

Parnassos, and Apollo turned him into a hawk ( Ovid XI, 291 ).

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

In the early Imperial era, Ovid describes the opening of Cerealia ( mid to late April ) with a horse race at the Circus, followed by the nighttime release of foxes into the stadium, their tails ablaze with lighted torches.

The two gods ( with a charm ) evoked Jupiter, who was forced to come down to earth at the Aventine ( hence named Iuppiter Elicius, according to Ovid ).

Ovid gives a vivid description of the rural rite at a boundary of fields of neighbouring peasants on February 23 ( the day of the Terminalia.

Scythians at the Tomb of Ovid ( c. 1640 ), by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld.

Sometimes he hung garlands on her doorpost wet with his tears, and lay with his soft flank on the hard threshold, complaining at the pitiless bolts barring the way .” According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.

Ovid places him also at the hunt of the Calydonian Boar, although the hunt occurred after the Argonauts ' return.

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

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.

Aphrodite gave him three golden apples – which came from her sacred apple-tree in Tamasus, Cyprus, according to Ovid, or from the garden of the Hesperides according to Servius – and told him to drop them one at a time to distract Atalanta.

Ovid and Servius suggest that Hippomenes forgot to pay the tribute to Aphrodite he had promised for helping him, and consequently, during the two's stay at Cybele's temple, Aphrodite caused them to have sex after going mad with lust, knowing that this would scorn Cybele, and this indeed resulted in Cybele ( or Zeus according to Hyginus ) transforming them into lions.

She had the ability to change her shape at will, a gift of her lover Poseidon according to Ovid.

Ovid in his Fasti ( 3. 523f ) provides a vivid description of the revelry and licentiousness of her outdoor festival where tents were pitched or bowers built from branches, where lad lay beside lass, and people asked that Anna bestow as many more years to them as they could drink cups of wine at the festival.

Ovid then notes that some equate Anna Perenna with the Moon or with Themis or with Io or with Amaltheia, but he turns to what he claims may be closer to the truth, that during the secessio plebis at Mons Sacer ( the Sacred Mountain ) the rebels ran short on food and an old woman of Bovillae named Anna baked cakes and brought them to the rebels every morning.

Ovid's conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention, but it has also been conjectured that Carna was a contracted form of Cardina, and at minimum Ovid was observing that their traditions were congruent.

Entering the Order at St. Germer, he studied with great zeal, devoting himself at first to the secular poets Ovid and Virgil — an experience which left its imprint on his works.

Ovid, writing at the time of Tibullus's death ( Am.

Using words like those of Leander in the seventeenth of Ovid ’ s Epistles he said: ' If only I had the wings of a dove / to fly back to you at will / Many and many a time I would come '.

Ovid offers an aetiological explanation: long ago, at ancient Carleoli, a farm-boy caught a fox stealing chickens and tried to burn it alive.

In his Fasti, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous ; not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the Saturnalia, Consualia, and feast of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.