In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, while in labour, Alcmene was having difficulty giving birth to such a large child.

Ovid's Metamorphoses collects more transformation stories in its 14th book.

The Countess of Oxford was the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the scholar who translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English.

In Hyginus ' report, Cephalus accidentally killed Procris some time later after he mistook her for an animal while hunting ; in Ovid's Metamorphoses vii, Procris, a jealous wife, was spying on him and heard him singing to the wind, but thought he was serenading his ex-lover Eos.

According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.

This is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX.

Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses weaves various myths into a fast-paced, fascinating story.

The word has also been linked to Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve human flesh ( his own son ) to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.

The Niobe narrative appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, ( Book VI ) where Latona ( Leto ) has demanded the women of Thebes to go to her temple and burn incense.

The word has also been linked to the original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve his own son to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.

Thrace is also mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses in the episode of Philomela, Procne, and Tereus.

In 1564 / 1567 Arthur Golding dedicated his popular translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses to the Earl.

Shakespeare also borrowed heavily from a speech by Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses in writing Prospero's renunciative speech ; nevertheless, the combination of these elements in the character of Prospero created a new interpretation of the sage magician as that of a carefully plotting hero, quite distinct from the wizard-as-advisor archetype of Merlin or Gandalf.

The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.

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.

Achelous relates the bitter episode afterwards to Theseus in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

According to Ovid's pretty myth-making in the same Metamorphoses episode, the Echinades Islands were once five nymphs.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else " Your blood be poured out over your mother and sisters ..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings.

The most detailed and literary version of the story of Adonis is a late one, in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The more widely accepted version, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is that Aphrodite compelled Myrrha ( or Smyrna ) to commit incest with her father Theias, the king of Assyria.

An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.

An engraving by Bernard Picart depicting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Alpheus attempts to capture the nymph Arethusa ( mythology ) | Arethusa.

The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid's work, is love — be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor ( Cupid ).

At times the passion could occur after the initial meeting, as, for example, in Phraedra's letter to Hippolytus in Ovid's Heroides: " That time I went to Eleusis ... it was then most of all ( though you had pleased me before ) that piercing love lodged in my deepest bones.

This definition of the fallacy, if strictly followed, touches on or wholly includes nearly all of the major modes of literary criticism, from Ovid's docere delictendo ( to teach by delighting ), Aristotle's catharsis, and Longinus's concept of " transport " to late-nineteenth century belles-lettres and the contemporary Chicago Critics.

The 644-line poem, like all Ovid's extant work except the Metamorphoses, is written in elegiac couplets.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea ( going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's account ), the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship.

Ovid's Cyparissus is so grief-stricken at accidentally killing his pet that he asks Apollo to let his tears fall forever.

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'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.

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.

Literary works also preserve some of Janus's cult epithets, such as Ovid's long passage of the Fasti devoted to Janus at the beginning of Book I ( 89-293 ), Tertullian, Augustine and Arnobius.

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 ).

One of the most important sources for Roman holidays is Ovid's Fasti, an incomplete poem that describes and provides origins for festivals from January to June at the time of Augustus.

This element would perhaps be the reason of the eulogy of Augustus at the beginning of book II of Ovid's Fasti: as the heir of Caesar he had indeed succeeded in his stepfather's plan.

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.

Symbolism was very important in painting at the time, and the use of Ovid's characters, combined with proper use of artist symbolism allowed the artist to tell a specific story.

Ovid's tongue is again discovered in his cheek when his recommendation that tall women should not straddle their lovers is exemplified at the expense of the tallest hero of the Trojan Wars: Quod erat longissima, numquam Thebais Hectoreo nupta resedit equo (' Because she was very tall, the Theban bride ( Andromache ) never sat on her Hectorian horse ').

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.

Ovid's spiritual journey resolves itself between both symbolic universes whose antagonistic characters become interwoven during a chiasm, in order to rise up again at the end of the radically metamorphized narration.

In Ovid's Rome, ' the tricky construction and reception of the love letter ' formed the centre of his Ars Amatoria or Art of Love: ' the love letter is situated at the core of Ovidian erotics '.

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.

About 3 km from the city, at the foot of Monte Morrone, are some ruins of reticulated masonry, traditionally believed to be Ovid's villa.

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.

Some scholars believe that Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe, as well as the story of Ariadne at Naxos might have also contributed to the development of the Tristan legend.

Ovid's poetic myth appears to draw on remnants of ancient rites to the Mater Larum, surviving as folk-cult among women at the fringes of the Feralia: an old woman sews up a fish-head, smears it with pitch then pierces and roasts it to bind hostile tongues to silence: she thus invokes Tacita.

Cambiasi was precocious, and at the age of fifteen he painted, along with his father, some subjects from Ovid's Metamorphoses on the facade of a house in Genoa.