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.

** Metamorphoses by Ovid ( Greek and Roman mythology )

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.

The most famous work of the period was Metamorphoses, also called The Golden Ass, by Apuleius.

The classic version is by Ovid, found in book 3 of his Metamorphoses ( completed 8 AD ).

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.

These smaller gatherings began as masked balls but evolved into the famous Metamorphoses balls by 1744.

Another of the myths is told most anecdotally by Ovid, in Metamorphoses.

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.

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.

For the scene where Lavinia reveals her rapists by writing in the sand, Shakespeare may have used a story from the first book of Metamorphoses ; the tale of the rape of Io by Zeus, where, to prevent her divulging the story, he turns her into a cow.

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.

* " Phaëton ", the second movement from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by English composer Benjamin Britten

The story of Pentheus is also discussed by Ovid in his Metamorphoses ( 3.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae of Hyginus, and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having engineered the tragic liaison.

* Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2

Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis ; Georgica, of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.

The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis: A Translation With Commentary, trans.

* Trzaskoma, Stephen M .. Antoninus Liberalis: three sections from Metamorphoses: Hierax ; Aigypios ; The Dorians

The Delphic oracle at last declared the cause of her illnesses to be the wrath of the offended goddess ; whereupon her father consented to her marriage with Acontius ( Aristaenetus, Epistolae, i. 10 ; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, i, tells the story with different names, see Ctesylla ).

The earliest recorded tale of the strix is from the lost Ornithologia of the Greek author Boios, which is partially preserved in Antoninus Liberalis's Metamorphoses.

* Metamorphoses, by Antoninus Liberalis

* Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses ( XLI ).

The reference is justified in the way that it draws inspiration from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses, just like his previously written poem, Venus and Adonis, did.

The iconography of most Western tapestries goes back to written sources, the Bible and Ovid's Metamorphoses being two popular choices.

Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592 – 1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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

* Metamorphoses ( 2000 ; 2nd place at the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition, Best Writing in the 2000 XYZZY Awards )

Such a device, according to Aristotle, is ″ contrived ″ by the poet, and thus is ″ inartistic .″ These writings appeared several centuries before Ovid's account in Metamorphoses which was adapted into Old French by the trouvère ( troubadour ) Chrétien de Troyes in the 12th century.

Though the Metamorphoses did not suffer the ignominious fate of the Medea, no ancient scholia on the poem survive ( although they did exist in antiquity ), and the earliest manuscript is very late, dating from the 11th century.

The Roman poet Ovid ( 1st century BC – 1st century AD ) tells a similar myth of Four Ages in Book 1. 89 – 150 of the Metamorphoses.

Ovid ( 1st century BC ), in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as " a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight ; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap.

He edited Albrecht von Halberstadt's Middle High German version of Ovid's Metamorphoses ( 1545 ), and in 1555 he published Das Rollwagenbuchlein, one of the best of the many German collections of tales and anecdotes which appeared in the 16th century.