* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV, 581 – 608 ;

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.

* 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.

** Metamorphoses by Ovid ( Greek and Roman mythology )

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

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

* Ovid Illustrated-large site from the University of Virginia, where many depictions of Leda and the Swan from Renaissance and later editions of the Metamorphoses will ( eventually ) be found.

Once, as Ovid relates in Metamorphoses XI Dionysus found his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr Silenus, missing.

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

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses

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.

* After completing Metamorphoses, Ovid begins the Fasti ( Festivals ), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses i. 588 – 747

* Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 299-381.

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

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

* 1993: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press

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.

Ovid writes in his Metamorphoses of a marketplace in the underworld where the dead convene to exchange news and gossip.

In the sixth book of Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the story of the rape of Philomela, daughter of Pandion I, King of Athens.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses iv. 55-166

He survived Tibullus ( d. 19 BC ), but was no longer alive when Ovid wrote ( c. AD 12 ) the epistle from Pontus ( E Ponto, iv.

" With Horace and Tibullus he was on intimate terms, and Ovid expresses his gratitude to him as the first to notice and encourage his work .’ The two panegyrics by unknown authors ( one printed among the poems of Tibullus as iv.

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

The episode is most fully told in Ovid, Metamorphoses iv.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.

Ovid in his Metamorphoses provided a descriptive interlude when Theseus is the guest of Achelous, waiting for the river's raging flood to subside: " He entered the dark building, made of spongy pumice, and rough tuff.

Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero ( mostly extant ), Ovid ( only two short fragments remain ), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus ( extant, with scholia ), and the less-famous Avienus ( extant ).

In the Fasti Ovid relates only the myths that associate Janus to Saturn, whom he welcomed as a guest and with whom eventually shared his kingdom in reward of his teaching the art of agriculture, and to the nymph Crane Grane or Carna, whom Janus raped and made the goddess of hinges as Cardea, while in the Metamorphoses he records his fathering with Venilia the nymph Canens, loved by Picus.

His death made a deep impression in Rome, as we learn from his contemporary, Domitius Marsus, and from the elegy in which Ovid ( Amores, iii.

Mr Hewitt taught him with his own boys, taking him through Julius Caesar, Terence, Ovid and Virgil ; he had already made great progress in mathematics.

In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ( Metamorphoses 4. 770 ), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, " the jealous aspiration of many suitors ," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the " Lord of the Sea " Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone.

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.

This is a Christianized version of a line by Ovid meaning " to the brave man every land is a fatherland because God his father made it ".

Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid.

The later writers Ovid ( Heroides 16. 71ff, 149 – 152 and 5. 35f ), Lucian ( Dialogues of the Gods 20 ), The Bibliotheca ( Epitome E. 3. 2 ) and Hyginus ( Fabulae 92 ), retell the story with skeptical, ironic or popularizing agendas.

Ovid tells this story shortly after the Judgement of Arms, where he shows how perceptions of Odysseus in Ovid's time were very different from the Archaic period in Greece.

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

A story recorded by Herodotus, and later by Strabo, Athenaeus, Ovid and the Suda, tells of a relation between Charaxus and the Egyptian courtesan Rhodopis.

Zeus commanded Hermes to kill Argus ; Ovid added the detail that he lulled all hundred eyes to sleep, ultimately with the story of Pan and Syrinx.

Ovid, the Roman poet, makes reference to Sisyphus in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Ovid twice told the story of Ino's sea-plunge with Melicertes in her arms.

Hyginus, whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian Sea from them.

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

This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.

This story was told by Latin poet Ovid in the Heroides, a selection of eighteen story-poems that pretend to be letters from mythological women to their lovers and ex-lovers.

Ovid frames the tale within the story of Orpheus, whose failure to retrieve his bride Eurydice from the underworld causes him to forsake the love of women in favor of that of boys.

The story of Deucalion and Pyrrha is also retold in the Roman poet Ovid ’ s famous collection of Metamorphoses.

Ovid tells the end of the story a bit differently in the third of his books on The Art of Love.

Myths had it that she was abducted by ( and later married ) Zephyrus, the god of the west wind ( which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Oreithyia ).

The Bibliotheca gives the most complete story followed by slight variations of his from Seneca and Ovid.

Still, Ovid distances himself in three steps from the horrifying story:

First he does not tell the story himself, but has one of his in-story characters, Orpheus, sing it ; second, Ovid tells his audience not even to believe the story ( cf.

First then does Ovid begin telling the story describing Myrrha, her father and their relationship, which Doll compares to the mating of Cupid and Psyche: here the lovemaking occurs in complete darkness and only the initiator ( Cupid ) knows the identity of the other as well.

Ovid also incorporates the story of Cycnus and Phylius in his Metamorphoses: in his version, Phylius performs the three tasks but refuses to deliver the tamed bull to Cycnus.

Ovid creates or recounts the myth of how the fountain came to be so in the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis.

Ovid narrates the story of Icarus at some length in the Metamorphoses ( viii. 183 – 235 ), and refers to it elsewhere.