Metamorphoses 12. 8ff, Fasti 3. 867ff

Medea and Metamorphoses, 12.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

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.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

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

In Metamorphoses, an aging Alcmene recounted the story of the birth of Heracles to Iole.

Metamorphoses.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.

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

* 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.

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, Metamorphoses, VI 140, VII 74, 94, 174, 177, 194, 241, XIV 44, 405.

Metamorphoses.

Her description in the poem is also related to Isis of Apuleius's Metamorphoses, but Isis was a figure of redemption and the Abyssinian maid cries out for her demon-lover.

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

The Metamorphoses was the best-known source of Roman mythology throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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

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, Metamorphoses XIV, 581 – 608 ;

* Ovid, Metamorphoses i. 588 – 747

" Horses and Hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the Shrew ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 34: 2 ( Summer, 1983 ), 159 – 171

* 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.

This epilogue ( Book 15, lines 871 – 879 ) is Ovid's way of telling his readers that everything is in flux, but that the exception to this is the Metamorphoses, " Now stands my task accomplished, such a work as not the wrath of Jove, nor fire nor sword nor the devouring ages can destroy ".

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

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

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:

Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding ( 1565 – 67 ) and George Sandys ( 1626 ), and Chapman's translations of Homer's Iliad ( 1611 ) and Odyssey ( c. 1615 ), among the outstanding examples.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses iv. 774 – 785, 790 – 801

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

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.

Metamorphoses, Books 1 – 8

Metamorphoses, Books 9 – 15

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.

* Cabaret of Metamorphoses ( 2000 – present ) of Nikolai Zykov

The tree is mentioned by Roman poet Ovid, in Book I: 89 – 112 " The Golden Age " of his Metamorphoses: