* 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, Metamorphoses, XII. 218.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 305 ; XII, 171-209 and 459-525 ; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome I, 22 ; Homer, Iliad, I, 262-8 ; Virgil, Aeneid VI, 448-9 ;

Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.

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.

611, 37 ; Pollux 9, 83 ); by Ted Hughes in Tales from Ovid ; by Carol Ann Duffy in " Mrs. Midas " from The World's Wife ; and by Nathaniel Hawthorne in " The Golden Touch " from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.

Other minor details attached to the myth include: the duration of Prometheus ' torment ; the origin of the eagle that ate the Titan's liver ( found in Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus ); Pandora's marriage to Epimetheus ( found in Pseudo-Apollodorus ); myths surrounding the life of Prometheus ' son, Deucalion ( found in Ovid and Apollonius of Rhodes ); and Prometheus ' marginal role in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts ( found in Apollonius of Rhodes and Valerius Flaccus ).

Ovid projected a fabulous and poetic triumphal precedent ; the god Bacchus / Dionysus had returned in triumph from his conquest of India, drawn in a golden chariot by tigers and surrounded by maenads, satyrs and assorted drunkards.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

The pursuit of law had little attraction for him ; he enjoyed more the reading of the ancient classics, especially Ovid, Catullus, and Tibullus.

The related concept of political exile also has a long history: Ovid was sent to Tomis ; Voltaire was sent to England.

Zeus commanded Hermes to kill Argus ; Ovid added the detail that he lulled all hundred eyes to sleep, ultimately with the story of Pan and Syrinx.

Latin borealis is from Greek boreas " north wind, north ", in mythology ( according to Ovid ) personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, and father of Calais and Zetes ; septentrionalis is from septentriones, " the seven plow oxen ", a name of Ursa Maior.

In Ovid, Amphion commits suicide out of grief ; according to Telesilla, Artemis and Apollo murder him along with his children.

The chief towns of Upper Moesia in the Principate were: Singidunum ( Belgrade ), Viminacium ( sometimes called municipium Aelium ; modern Kostolac ), Remesiana ( Bela Palanka ), Bononia ( Vidin ), Ratiaria ( Archar ) and Skupi ( modern Skopje ); of Lower Moesia: Oescus ( colonia Ulpia, Gigen ), Novae ( near Svishtov, the chief seat of Theodoric the Great ), Nicopolis ad Istrum ( Nikup ; really near the river Yantra ), Marcianopolis ( Devnya ), Odessus ( Varna ) and Tomi ( Constanţa ; to which the poet Ovid was banished ).

Ovid in his Metamorphoses twice ( 6. 113 ; 7. 615 ) calls Aegina by the name Asopis.

This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.

* Aganippis is a name used by Ovid as an epithet of Hippocrene ; its meaning however is not quite clear.

Celibacy may have been a condition of their office ; sexual abstinence was, according to Ovid, required of those attending Ceres ' major, nine-day festival.

* One of the Argonauts, son of Hermes and Antianeira ( daughter of Menoetius ), brother of Erytus ; participated in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, according to Hyginus and Ovid.

* Ovid: Alphenor, Damasichthon, Ilioneus, Ismenus, Phaedimus, Sipylus, Tantalus ; the daughters ' names are not given.

Young men celebrated their coming of age ; they cut off and dedicated their first beards to their household Lares and if citizens, wore their first toga virilis, the " manly " toga – which Ovid, perhaps by way of poetic etymology, calls a toga libera ( Liber's toga or " toga of freedom ").