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.

In John Keats ' loose retelling of Ovid's version of the myth of Scylla and Glaucus in Book 3 of Endymion ( 1818 ), the evil Circe does not transform Scylla into a monster but merely murders the beautiful nymph.

Romeo and Juliet may draw either from Ovid's Latin retelling in the Metamorphoses, or from Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of that work.

The work was praised for not directly translating, but instead retelling the story in a language which was as fresh and new for the audience today as Ovid's texts were to his contemporary audience.

The Philomela attributed to Chrétien de Troyes, a retelling of the story of Philomela and Procne, also takes its source from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Published in 1997 by Faber and Faber, it is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

In Ovid's interpolation, when Hera learned of Argus ' death, she took his eyes and placed them in the plumage of the peacock, accounting for the eye pattern in its tail.

Following a reference to signatures in nature and Yggdrasil, the poet introduces Baucis and Philemon, an aged couple who, in a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses, offer hospitality to the gods in their humble house and are rewarded.

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.

In Greek mythology, Caeneus (, Kaineus ) was a Lapith hero of Thessaly and, in Ovid's Metamorphoses — where the classical model of a hero is deconstructed and transformed — originally a woman, Caenis, daughter of Atrax.

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 ').

Acontius (), was in Greek mythology a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos, the hero of a love-story told by Callimachus in a poem now lost, which forms the subject of two of Ovid's Heroides ( xx, xxi ).

It comes originally from Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses where it is attributed to the hero Ajax:

Caenis / Caeneus ' legend is found in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where he is mentioned briefly as a participant in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Aesacus is an illegitimate son of King Priam secretly born to the nymph Alexirhoe, daughter of the river Granicus.

Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and Dione and sister of Pelops and Broteas, had known Arachne, a Lydian woman, when she was still in Lydia / Maeonia in her father's lands near to Mount Sipylus, according to Ovid's account.

Larunda ( also Larunde, Laranda, Lara ) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's Fasti.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the nymph Lotis was the beautiful daughter of Neptune, the god of water and the sea.

The second volume takes the form of a plea to Augustus to end the unhappy exile brought about by the famous carmen et error — the nature of the mistake is never made clear, although some speculate it may have had something to do with Ovid's overhearing-or rather discovery-of the adulterous nature of Augustus ' daughter, Julia.

** The character of Corinna in Ovid's poems have widely been thought to be Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus.

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

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

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.

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.

Ovid's Latin account of the Minotaur, which did not elaborate on which half was bull and which half man, was the most widely available during the Middle Ages, and several later versions show the reverse of the Classical configuration, a man's head and torso on a bull's body, reminiscent of a centaur.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

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.

This is supported by records of an inscription from Ovid's Ars Amatoria, which was on the now-lost original frame of the Arnolfini Portrait, and by the many Latin inscriptions in van Eyck paintings, using the Roman alphabet, then reserved for educated men.

In Ovid's Pentheus, Acoetes was brought before the King to determine if Bacchus was truly a god.

One of his final works was Las hilanderas ( The Spinners ), painted circa 1657, representing either the interior of the royal tapestry works or a depiction of Ovid's Fable of Arachne, depending on interpretation.

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.

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.

The name Nycteus signifies " of the night ", as does Nyctimene in the following variant: according to accounts by the Roman Gaius Julius Hyginus and in Ovid's Metamorphoses ( ii. 590 ), an Epopeus was a king of Lesbos.

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 pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow.

He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus ( see Boast of Cassiopeia ), just before Phineus was turned to stone.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

In Ovid's Fasti, the baby was Triptolemus and not Demophon, although in most other versions he was an adult by the time ; some sources state that even his parentage was different.

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.

* in exclamations, such as me miseram, " wretched me " ( spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Remedium Amoris ; note that this is feminine: the masculine form would be me miser < ins > um </ ins >).

Polyphemus sings in Georg Friedrich Händel's popular 1718 setting of Acis and Galatea, an English language pastoral opera or masque with the libretto set by John Gay to Ovid's Metamorphosis.

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.

The banquet served by Ovid's Achelous offered a prototype for Italian midday feasts in the fountain-cooled shade of garden grottoes.

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.

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

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, a raven also begins as white before Apollo punishes it by turning it black for delivering a message of a lover's unfaithfulness.

Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses

A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, done by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a critique of the society of that day linking Myrrha to Mary II and Cinyras to James II.

In 1997 the myth of Myrrha and Cinyras was one of 24 tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses that were retold by English poet Ted Hughes in his poetical work Tales from Ovid.

The concert was inspired by the myth of Myrrha in Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes excerpts from the volume that " move in and out of the music as though in a dream, or perhaps Myrrha ’ s memory of the events that shaped her fate ," as described by Kuster.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the child is thrown from the walls by the Greek victors ( 13, 413ff ).