Ovid's treatment of the Icarus myth and its connection with that of Phaëton influenced the mythological tradition in English literature as received and interpreted by major writers such as Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Joyce.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

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.

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.

In Ovid's Fasti, the baby was Triptolemus and not Demophon, although in most other versions he was an adult by the time ; some sources state that even his parentage was different.

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 ".

Literary works also preserve some of Janus's cult epithets, such as Ovid's long passage of the Fasti devoted to Janus at the beginning of Book I ( 89-293 ), Tertullian, Augustine and Arnobius.

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

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.

Les Fastes, ou les usages de lannie ( 1779 ), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti.

* a temple built by Livia according to Ovid's Fasti VI. 637 ‑ 638 (" te quoque magnifica, Concordia, dedicat aede Livia quam caro praestitit ipsa viro "-the only literary reference to this temple ).

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.

Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome.

Larunda ( also Larunde, Laranda, Lara ) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's Fasti.

Ovid's Fasti.

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 ).

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

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 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.

These accounts seek a higher moral meaning from the munus, but Ovid's very detailed ( though satirical ) instructions for seduction in the amphitheatre suggest that the spectacles could generate a potent and dangerously sexual atmosphere.

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 Ovid's interpolation, when Hera learned of Argus ' death, she took his eyes and placed them in the plumage of the peacock, accounting for the eye pattern in its tail.

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.

Ovid's self-conscious and urbane report appears to be suggesting in his uncharacteristic depiction of Polyphemus that it is possible for the way that readers view a character to drastically change over time.

Sexual manuals have existed since antiquity, such as Ovid's Ars Amatoria, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, the Ananga Ranga and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation.

The word has also been linked to the original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve his own son to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.

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.

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.

Ovid's description of the cave of Achelous provided some specific inspiration to patrons in France as well as Italy for the Mannerist garden grotto, with its cool dampness, tuff vaulting and shellwork walls.

The banquet served by Ovid's Achelous offered a prototype for Italian midday feasts in the fountain-cooled shade of garden grottoes.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, a raven also begins as white before Apollo punishes it by turning it black for delivering a message of a lover's unfaithfulness.

The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow.

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.

* 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.

Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses

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.

quote in " Ovid's version "); third, he has Orpheus congratulate Rome, Ovid's home town, for its being far away from the land where this story took place ( Cyprus ).

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 '.