According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to Ovid, the fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she was repulsed by his fishy tail and fled onto the land where he could not follow.

According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.

According to Ovid, the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects ( the loves and transgressions of the gods ), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face.

According to Ovid, Vesta is indeed the Earth itself, the sacred sphere ( orbs ) that makes life possible as we know it: " Vesta is the Earth itself, both have the perennial fire, the Earth and the sacred Fire show their see.

According to Ovid, one day, Zeus noticed the maiden and lusted after her.

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.

According to Ovid:

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.

According to the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis ( or Iphys ) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete.

According to Ovid, Astraea abandoned the earth during the Iron Age.

According to Ovid, it was Themis rather than Zeus who told Deucalion to throw the bones of " his Mother " over his shoulder to create a new race of humankind after the Deluge.

According to Ovid, in the formative years of growth after the deluge, mother earth accidentally produced a gigantic Python that terrorized the humans.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

According to the Roman poets Virgil ( Aeneid, book v. 864 ) and Ovid, the Sirenum scopuli were three small rocky islands where the Sirens of Greek mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths.

According to Ovid, Cinyras ' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father ( in retribution for her mother Cenchreis ' hybris ), slept with him, became pregnant, and asked the gods to change her into something other than human ; she became a tree from whose bark myrrh drips.

According to Ovid, Myrrha was the daughter of King Cinyras and Queen Cenchreis of Cyprus.

According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius ' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia ; Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.

According to Ovid, born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis.

According to Ovid, Mestra married the thief Autolycus, though other sources named his wife differently.

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

According to Ovid he was the author of erotic poems.

According to Ovid, Morpheus concentrated on the human elements of dreams, his brothers Phobetor and Phantasos being responsible for animals and inanimate objects, respectively.

According to one study, in deforested north and northwest China, the average annual precipitation decreased by one third between the 1950s and the 1980s.

According to German documents, the DC-3 was shot down at longitude 10. 15 West, latitude 46. 07 North, some from Bordeaux, France, and northwest of A Coruña, Spain.

According to his annals, discovered at Assur, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the northwest and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county, located in the " rolling hills of northwest Tennessee ", has a total area of, of which is land and ( 1. 88 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, all of it land. Hanover, Illinois, is located in Jo Daviess County in the northwest corner of Illinois, within five miles of the Mississippi River.

According to the county superintendent, the district was one of the first rural schools in northwest Antelope County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1. 2 square miles ( 3. 1 km² ). None of the area is covered with water, but Cuba Lake is northwest of the village.

According to other stories, Kwun Tong was a typhoon shelter for the Kowloon Water Police, which made it an important political and defence point of northwest Kowloon.

According to Thai national history, Ramkhamhaeng expanded his kingdom as far as Lampang, Phrae and Nan in the north, and Phitsanulok and Vientiane in the east, the Mon states of Burma in the west, as far as the Gulf of Bengal in the northwest and Nakhon Si Thammarat in the south.

According to Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) and Herodotus, the people of Bithynia in northwest Anatolia originated from two Thracian tribes, the Bithyni and Thyni, which migrated from their original home around the river Strymon in Thrace.

According to legend, the accordion was added after a German cargo ship carrying the instruments sank as a of accordions washed ashore on the northwest coast of Colombia.

According to Annals of Lake Manasarowar ( Lake Manasarovar ), at one point the Zhang Zhung civilization consisted of 18 kingdoms in the west and northwest portion of Tibet.

According to an Army statement, Maupin's remains " were recovered northwest of Baghdad on March 20, by soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, based out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, part of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team.

< p align = justify > According to an Army statement, Maupin's remains " were recovered northwest of Baghdad on March 20, by soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, based out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, attached to 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.

According to oral traditions of the Kwassio and Bakola peoples, Abong-Mbang was settled when the Maka-Njem peoples moved northwest from the Great Lakes region of the Congo River.

According to the USGS, the Cumberland Mountain range is long and wide, bounded by the Russell Fork on the northeast, the Pound River and Powell River on the southeast, Cove Creek on the southwest, and Tackett Creek, the Cumberland River, Poor Fork Cumberland River, and Elkhorn Creek on the northwest.

According to the UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World ’ s Languages in Danger, Gwich ’ in is now a " severely endangered " language with fewer than 150 fluent speakers in Alaska and another 250 in northwest Canada.

According to the census of 2000, there were 5, 002 people, 1, 977 households, and 1, 678 families residing in the Interlochen Zip Code Tabulation Area ( 49643 ), which also includes most of Inland Township as well as portions of Almira and Colfax townships in Benzie County along with the western portion of Green Township and the northwest corner of Grant Township.

According to ` Abd al-Qadir Bada ' uni, one of the few contemporary historians to mention its construction, the architect of the tomb was the Persian architect, Mirak Mirza Ghiyas ( also referred to as Mirak Ghiyathuddin ) who was brought from Herat ( northwest Afghanistan ), and had previously designed several buildings in Herat, Bukhara ( now Uzbekistan ), and others elsewhere in India.

According to the history recorded by the Alaska Volcano Observatory: “ The first episode began in Pliocene or early Pleistocene time ( the oldest known age of lavas is 0. 93 Ma 1990 ) and produced extensive flows and subordinate pyroclastic deposits of basaltic and andesitic composition, which enlarged the island by several kilometers along the northwest coast.

According to the Kurgan hypothesis, the northwest of the region is also considered to be the source of the root of the Indo-European languages.

According to the map images of the Valdemar Companion, the Empire of Holy Ithik is bordered north by Zoskin, and narrowly by Taymyrr, northwest by Oris, west and southwest by Sarmus, south by Angarsk, and northeast by the unknown nation which is also bordered by Taymyrr, Zoskin and Tolmassar.

According to the map images of the Valdemar Companion, Agedia is a small nation bordered northeast and east by the Grand Empire of the Hinar, southeast by the Treterine Empire, northwest by Brendan and southwest by Ambon.

According to the map images of the Valdemar Companion, the Grand Empire of the Hinar shares borders with Isiro in the northwest, Sarmus to the north, Angarsk to the northeast and partially to the north, Agedia to the west, Brendan only extremely narrowly to the farthest west, Vaterlunde to the southeast, and with the Treterine Empire to the direct south.