* Ovid, Metamorphoses XIII. 423-450, 481-571

* In 1613, Spanish poet Luis de Góngora wrote an illustrious poem titled La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea that retells the story of Polyphemus, Galatea and Acis found in Book XIII of the Metamorphoses.

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

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 XIV, 581 – 608 ;

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.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 458-9 ; VI, 172-76 & 403-11.

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.

Metamorphoses, III, 1-137 ; IV, 563-603.

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

* Virgil, Aeneid VI. 445 ; Ovid, Metamorphoses XV. 497

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 305 ; XII, 171-209 and 459-525 ; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome I, 22 ; Homer, Iliad, I, 262-8 ; Virgil, Aeneid VI, 448-9 ;

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

The story is told Bibliotheke III, xiv, 8 ; and by Ovid in the Metamorphoses VI, 424 – 674.

* In 1783, Austrian composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf wrote twelve symphonies on selected stories of the Metamorphoses ; only six survive, corresponding to stories from the first six books.

Metamorphoses XI, 301-17 ; Homer.

* 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.

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

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

* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

Metamorphoses 12. 620 – 13. 398.

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.

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.

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.