* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

* 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.

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.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

The later writers Ovid ( Heroides 16. 71ff, 149 – 152 and 5. 35f ), Lucian ( Dialogues of the Gods 20 ), The Bibliotheca ( Epitome E. 3. 2 ) and Hyginus ( Fabulae 92 ), retell the story with skeptical, ironic or popularizing agendas.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

* March 20 – Publius Ovidius Naso ( Ovid ), Roman poet ( d. 17 / 18 )

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 ").

Ovid uses this opportunity to inform his audience that heat and water are the sources of all life – “ because when heat and moisture blend in due balance, they conceive: these two, these are the origin of everything.

Though fire and water fight, humidity and warmth create all things ; that harmony ” ( Ovid – pg 15 ).

* Ovid: Metamorphoses X: 728 – 731

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

The story is told Bibliotheke III, xiv, 8 ; and by Ovid in the Metamorphoses VI, 424 – 674.

* The Ovid Project: Metamorphising the Metamorphoses ( Illustrations by Johann Whilhelm Baur ( 1600 – 1640 ) and anonymous illustrations from George Sandys's edition of 1640.

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 Metamorphoses XII passim ; Odyssey XXI, 330 – 340 ; Iliad xii.

The festival and temple's foundation year is uncertain – Ovid credits it to Claudia Quinta ( c. late 3rd century BC ).

Ovid describes these creatures ( 6. 131 – 142 ) as having a large head, prominent eyes, and beaks suited for snatching and carrying off ; their wings are white, and their talons are like hooks.

Just like her husband ( who became the god Quirinus ), she was deified after her death as Hora, as recounted in Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 829 – 851:

* Ovid, Fasti ( Book III, 167 – 258 )

In Cruttwell's introduction, the Golden Age is dated 80 BC – 14 AD (" from Cicero to Ovid "), which is about the same as Teuffel's.

* Publius Ovidius Naso ( Ovid ) ( 43 BC – 18 AD ), poet