Ovid's version of this story ( Heroides 9 ) has Heracles under the erotic control of Iole.

* In Ovid's Heroides, an apocryphal letter from Briseis to Achilles makes up the third entry, in which she reproaches him for both giving her up too easily to Agamemnon, and being tardy in gaining her return.

His numerous translations from the Latin included Cicero's Somnium Scipionis with the commentary of Macrobius: Julius Caesar's Gallic War ; Ovid's Heroides and Metamorphoses ; Boethius ' De consolatione philosophiae ; and Augustine's De trinitate.

At times the passion could occur after the initial meeting, as, for example, in Phraedra's letter to Hippolytus in Ovid's Heroides: " That time I went to Eleusis ... it was then most of all ( though you had pleased me before ) that piercing love lodged in my deepest bones.

This story most notably appears in the second poem of Ovid's Heroides, a book of epistolary poems from mythological women to their respective men, and it also appears in the Aitia of Callimachus.

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 ).

Chaucer's sources for the legends include: Virgil's Aeneid, Vincent of Beauvais, Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, Gaius Julius Hyginus ' Fabula and Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides.

Commenting on a Freudian analysis of the myth stating that Ovid " disconcertingly suggests that might be an unspoken universal of human experience " Doll notes that Ovid's stories work like metaphors: they are meant to give insight into the human psyche.

Less than two generations after Ovid's publication, Acts 14: 11-12 relates the ecstatic reception given to Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas: " The crowds shouted ' The gods have come down to us in human form!

The idea of purity and virginity is stressed in Ovid's description.

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.

Doll suggests that both Ovid's and Proulx ' main concerns are civilization and its discontents and that their use of images of nature uncovers similar understandings of what is " natural " when it comes to who and how one should love.

In Ovid's version, Tyrrhenus arator (" a Tyrrhenian ploughman ") observed a clod turn into a man and begin to speak of things destined to happen and how the Etruscan people could discover the future.

It is written in dactylic hexameter, the form of the great heroic and nationalistic epic poems, both those of the ancient tradition ( the Iliad and the Odyssey ) and of Ovid's own day ( the Aeneid of Virgil ).

Ovid's Metamorphoses ( 4. 212f ) speaks of King Orchamus who ruled the Achaemenid cities of Persia as the 7th in line from ancient Belus the founder.

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.

" At the same time, Sedley translated other specimens of ancient poetry, such as Virgil's Georgics IV, the eighth Ode of the second Book of Horace and three elegies from Ovid's Amores.

Ovid's poetic myth appears to draw on remnants of ancient rites to the Mater Larum, surviving as folk-cult among women at the fringes of the Feralia: an old woman sews up a fish-head, smears it with pitch then pierces and roasts it to bind hostile tongues to silence: she thus invokes Tacita.

In Ovid's description of the tale, a particular centaur, Latreus, mocks Caeneus and denies his skill as a fighter when he realizes Caeneus ' female origin.

Ovid's first century Roman audience would surely have had a basic knowledge of Polyphemus ' role as an uncivilized cannibal in Book IX of the Odyssey, and this episode gives an amusing contrast to that characterization.

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.

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.

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.

Livia's name did not and could not appear in the official religious calendars, but Ovid's Fasti associates her with May 1, and presents her as the ideal wife and " paragon of female Roman virtue ".

The tale of Cranaë's rape, though stocked by Roman rather than Greek figures, would be not out of place in Ovid's Metamorphoses: the heroine doesn't change into a tree, but her transformation resides in the token of the whitethorn tree.

One of the most important sources for Roman holidays is Ovid's Fasti, an incomplete poem that describes and provides origins for festivals from January to June at the time of Augustus.

According to Livy and Ovid's Fasti we are told that he was chosen for this duty because he was the best of the Roman community.

Ovid's description is typical of Roman representations: in a letter from exile he reflects ruefully on the " goddess who admits by her unsteady wheel her own fickleness ; she always has its apex beneath her swaying foot.

The Arcana Deorum is a commentary on Ovid's Metamophoses ; the Dictys Cretensis is a history of the Trojan War ; the Historia Magni Principis Alexandri is a history of Alexander the Great ; the Prohemia Poetarum is a commentary on the lives and works of many classical and Christian authors ; the Defensio de praerogativis et dignitatibus ordinem monasticam concernentibus uses historical examples to defend monastic institutions.

It was sharply criticised for its obscenity by contemporary authors Joseph Hall and John Davies of Hereford, though Nashe had tried to pre-empt criticism by placing it in the tradition of classical erotica: " Yet Ovid's wanton muse did not offend ".

** Ovid's imagined letter from Dido to Aeneas, trans.

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 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.

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.

The Niobe narrative appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, ( Book VI ) where Latona ( Leto ) has demanded the women of Thebes to go to her temple and burn incense.

The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.

The more widely accepted version, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is that Aphrodite compelled Myrrha ( or Smyrna ) to commit incest with her father Theias, the king of Assyria.

The transformation of Myrrha in Ovid's version has been interpreted as a punishment for her breaking the social rules through her incestuous relationship with her father.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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.

The only full narration of his myth is that of Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV. 274-388 ( 8 AD ), where the emphasis is on the feminine snares of the lascivious water-nymph Salmacis and her compromising of Hermaphroditus ' erstwhile budding manly strength, detailing his bashfulness and the engrafting of their bodies.

In Ovid's retelling, placed in the mouth of the aged Homeric hero Nestor, Caenis, the daughter of Elatus ( a Lapith chieftain ) and Hippea, was raped by Neptune, who then fulfilled her request to be changed into a man so that she could never be raped again ; he also made Caenis invulnerable to weaponry.

In some editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a phrase is taken as referring to the birth goddess Lucina and her counterpart collective, the Nixi.

The bird referred to in English translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 6 ( the story of King Tereus of Thrace, who rapes his wife's sister, Philomela, and cuts out her tongue ), as lapwing is probably the Northern lapwing.

Ovid's account of Medusa's mortality tells that she had once been a woman, vain of her beautiful hair, who had lain with Poseidon in the Temple of Athena.