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.

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.

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 Cyclops also appears in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.

* Ovid's " Epistulae ex Ponto " appears.

He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus ( see Boast of Cassiopeia ), just before Phineus was turned to stone.

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.

The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected sexuality and falls in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.

The expression Numen inest appears in Ovid's Fasti ( III, 296 ) and has been translated as ' There is a spirit here '.

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 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 exclamations, such as me miseram, " wretched me " ( spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Remedium Amoris ; note that this is feminine: the masculine form would be me miser < ins > um </ ins >).

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else " Your blood be poured out over your mother and sisters ..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings.

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.

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.

cannot be escaped entirely-especially since Ovid's story of Myrrha's incest poses a potential reciprocal to the nightmare Byron invents for Sardanapalus, of sympathy with the son who is the object of his mother's ' incest '.

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.

The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid's work, is love — be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor ( Cupid ).

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.

The myths of the Chimera can be found in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheca ( book 1 ), Homer's Iliad ( book 6 ); Hyginus ' Fabulae 57 and 151 ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( book VI 339 ; IX 648 ); and Hesiod's Theogony 319ff.

A minor Classical-era composer, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, wrote a series of symphonies based on Ovid's Metamorphoses ( not to be confused with Twentieth-Century composer Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid ).

This element would perhaps be the reason of the eulogy of Augustus at the beginning of book II of Ovid's Fasti: as the heir of Caesar he had indeed succeeded in his stepfather's plan.

The last part of the book addresses Ovid's wife, praising her loyalty throughout his years of exile and wishing that she be remembered for as long as his books are read.

** The character of Corinna in Ovid's poems have widely been thought to be Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus.

About 3 km from the city, at the foot of Monte Morrone, are some ruins of reticulated masonry, traditionally believed to be Ovid's villa.

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.

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle, one of the four mythological paintings commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, is a proto-Baroque work due to its depiction of movement, drama, and diagonal compositional arrangement. Aside from his religious output, Correggio conceived a now-famous set of paintings depicting the Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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.

Polyphemus sings in Georg Friedrich Händel's popular 1718 setting of Acis and Galatea, an English language pastoral opera or masque with the libretto set by John Gay to Ovid's Metamorphosis.

Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus's object of desire in Theocritus's Idylls VI and XI and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth of Acis and Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I. 1. 27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat-" Let my work rise in six steps, fall back in five.

This is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX.

In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is reduced to unflattering human terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera tauri —" Pasiphaë took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with a bull.

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.

Thrace is also mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses in the episode of Philomela, Procne, and Tereus.

In Ovid's Fasti, Mercury is assigned to escort the nymph Larunda to the underworld.

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.

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 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 earliest known mention of the game is in Ovid's Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love ) ( written between 1 BC and 8 AD ).

Ovid's Heroides give us an idea of how ancient and, in particular, Roman authors imagined Helen in her youth: she is presented as a young princess wrestling naked in the palaestra ; an image alluding to a part of girls ' physical education in classical ( and not in Mycenaean ) Sparta.

The most detailed and literary version of the story of Adonis is a late one, in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Aesacus is an illegitimate son of King Priam secretly born to the nymph Alexirhoe, daughter of the river Granicus.

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.

Ovid's Cyparissus is so grief-stricken at accidentally killing his pet that he asks Apollo to let his tears fall forever.

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.