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.

Romeo and Juliet may draw either from Ovid's Latin retelling in the Metamorphoses, or from Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of that work.

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.

Neckam also wrote Corrogationes Promethei, a scriptural commentary prefaced by a treatise on grammatical criticism ; a translation of Aesop into Latin elegiacs ( six fables from this version, as given in a Paris manuscript, are printed in Robert's Fables inedites ); commentaries, on portions of Aristotle and Ovid's Metamorphoses, which remain unprinted, on Martianus Capella, which has recently received an edition, and on other works.

The Latin motto adopted by the borough was Prosunt gentibus artes or " Arts profit the people ", and was adapted from Ovid's Metamorpheses.

Tmesis is found as a poetic or rhetorical device in classical Latin poetry, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Echo and Narcissus is an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Latin mythological epic from the Augustan period.

From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.

This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea ( going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's account ), the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship.

In Ovid's later account, the goddess of the dawn, Eos ( Aurora to the Romans ) seizes Cephalus while he is hunting, but Cephalus begins to pine for Procris.

Ovid's account relates that Hermaphroditus was nursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida, a sacred mountain in Phrygia ( present day Turkey ).

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.

This episode furthermore has been treated repeatedly in opera, notably by Jacopo Peri ( Dafne ) in 1597 and Richard Strauss ( Daphne, with a libretto that deviates significantly from Ovid's account ) in 1938.

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.

According to Ovid's account, the tears of Apollo stained the newly formed flower's petals with ai, ai, the sign of his grief.

Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and Dione and sister of Pelops and Broteas, had known Arachne, a Lydian woman, when she was still in Lydia / Maeonia in her father's lands near to Mount Sipylus, according to Ovid's account.

Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD.

Such a correction concerns the temples dedicated on the Capitol ; it does not address the question of the dedication of the temple on the Island, which is puzzling, since the place is attested epigraphically as dedicated to the cult of Iuppiter Iurarius and Vediove in the Fasti Praenestini and to Jupiter according to Ovid's.

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.

An engraving by Bernard Picart depicting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Alpheus attempts to capture the nymph Arethusa ( mythology ) | Arethusa.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

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.

* 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.

Byron knew the story of the mythical Myrrha, if not directly through Ovid's Metamorphoses, then at least through Alfieri's Mirra, which he was familiar with.

The work was praised for not directly translating, but instead retelling the story in a language which was as fresh and new for the audience today as Ovid's texts were to his contemporary audience.

It has been interpreted as Ovid's challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of Augustus's religious reforms, which were often innovations of Imperial propaganda under the cloak of archaic revivalism.

They are a " disconcerting composite " that recalls images on certain curse tablets, one of which shows a " heart-feasting Hecate " that matches Ovid's description.

For example Ovid's Metamorphoses creates a form which is a clear predecessor of the stream of consciousness genre.

* Ovid's poem Medea, of which only two fragments survive.

The back wall of the room, which is in shadow, is hung with rows of paintings, including one of a series of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Peter Paul Rubens, and copies, by Velázquez's son-in-law and principal assistant Juan del Mazo, of works by Jacob Jordaens.

Preserved by a series of fragmentary papyruses which attest its popularity, it served as a source of inspiration for Ovid's Ars Amatoria, written around 3 BC, which is partially a sex manual, and partially a burlesque on the art of love.

His symphonies ( around 120 of them ) include twelve based on Ovid's Metamorphoses ( six of which have survived to the present day ).

The librettist and priest, Rufinus Widl, modified Ovid's story ( in which Apollo, Zephyrus, and Hyacinth clearly constituted a homosexual love triangle ) to make it conform to the ethic, by changing the sexually desired character from Ovid's Hyacinth to Melia, his sister.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

He prepared elaborate Notes on the Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil with Excursus, terms of Husbandry, and a Flora Virgiliana, London, 1846, 8vo, and edited Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics ( 1847 ), Horace's Satires and Epistles ( 1848 ), Ovid's Fasti ( 1848 ), and Sallust's Catilina and Jugurtha ( 1849 ).

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.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

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.

One of his final works was Las hilanderas ( The Spinners ), painted circa 1657, representing either the interior of the royal tapestry works or a depiction of Ovid's Fable of Arachne, depending on interpretation.

Ali Smith's 2007 novel Girl Meets Boy is based on Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe, and is part of the Canongate Myth Series.

Ovid touches upon the theme of Marsyas twice, very briefly telling the tale in Metamorphoses vi. 383-400, where he concentrates on the tears shed into the river Marsyas, and making an allusion in Fasti, vi. 649-710, where Ovid's primary focus is on the aulos and the roles of flute-players rather than Marsyas, whose name is not actually mentioned.

Building on Sigmund Freud's theories and psychoanalysis this is shown in Ovid's version of the myth of Myrrha.

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.

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 Metamorphoses, she becomes one with Hermaphroditus, and Hermaphroditus curses the fountain to have the same effect on others.

* Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories also bases its format on Metamorphoses, adapting Ovid's poem to modern times with drug-addicted, teenage versions of many of the characters from the original play.

* Jazz artist Patricia Barber's 2006 album, Mythologies, is a set of songs based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

* Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis's 2009 album Metamorphosen is based on Ovid's epic Metamorphoses.

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.

* Translation of Ovid's Fasti, a section on January, and Janus