Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

Ovid also wrote the Fasti, which describes Roman festivals and their legendary origins.

A version by Conon, a contemporary of Ovid, also ends in suicide ( Narrations, 24 ).

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.

Ovid also relates stories of men who roamed the woods of Arcadia in the form of wolves.

Besides Ovid, other Roman writers also treated lycanthropy.

The related concept of political exile also has a long history: Ovid was sent to Tomis ; Voltaire was sent to England.

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

Ovid and Hyginus both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera ( and Zeus's resulting anger ) as a reason for it.

Ovid also adds the detail of her seeing his body washed up onshore before her attempted suicide.

Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for " halcyon days ," the seven days in winter when storms never occur.

Ovid also introduces us to another character from Greek mythology, also named Iphis, a Cypriot shepherd who loved a woman named Anaxarete.

In his brief account, Servius differs from Ovid mainly in substituting Silvanus for Apollo, but also changes the gender of the deer and makes the god responsible for its death:

Ovid places him also at the hunt of the Calydonian Boar, although the hunt occurred after the Argonauts ' return.

Ovid also emphasises the less formal freedoms and rights of Liberalia ; Liber was, after all, a god of wine.

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

According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius ' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia ; Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.

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 mentions the " cruel " Medon as one of the suitors ; he is also included on the list of suitors in the Bibliotheca.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

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Ovid also tells that Anna, although Magistra Silverman believes her to be fully grown, was actually a person of small stature.

In the Renaissance, the Silvae thanks to Poliziano helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called Sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by Hugo Grotius and John Dryden, Dante mentions Statius in De vulgari eloquentia along with Ovid, Virgil and Lucan as one of the four regulati poetae ( ii, vi, 7 ).

Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

Chrétien names his treatments of Ovid in the introduction to Cligès, where he also mentions his work about King Mark and Iseult.

Ovid mentions that Ceres ' search for her lost daughter Proserpina was represented by women clothed in white, running about with lighted torches.

Ovid, who was banished to Tomis, mentions the island ; so do Ptolemy and Strabo.

" Ovid mentions it in " The Story of Picus and Canens ": " There, she poured out her words of grief, tearfully, in faint tones, in harmony with sadness, just as the swan sings once, in dying, its own funeral song.

Ovid mentions that Paris had carved the name of Ænone on a poplar, as Shakespeare has Orlando carve the name of Rosalind upon the trees of the forest of Arden.

Ovid mentions that Theseus killed Antiope despite the fact that she was pregnant.

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

The two gods ( with a charm ) evoked Jupiter, who was forced to come down to earth at the Aventine ( hence named Iuppiter Elicius, according to Ovid ).

In 2008 the newspaper The Guardian named Myrrha's relationship with her father as depicted in Metamorphoses by Ovid as one of the top ten stories of incestuous love ever.

According to Ovid, Mestra married the thief Autolycus, though other sources named his wife differently.

Diodorus Siculus ( 4. 31. 8 ) and Ovid in his Heroides ( 9. 54 ) mention a son named Lamos.

Ovid then notes that some equate Anna Perenna with the Moon or with Themis or with Io or with Amaltheia, but he turns to what he claims may be closer to the truth, that during the secessio plebis at Mons Sacer ( the Sacred Mountain ) the rebels ran short on food and an old woman of Bovillae named Anna baked cakes and brought them to the rebels every morning.

The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.

The town was named by a clerk interested in the classics ( see Ovid ).

The town is named after the Roman poet Ovid, a name assigned by a clerk interested in the classics.

The asylum, located on the site of the abandoned Ovid Agricultural College, was named in memory of Dr. Willard, who died of typhoid fever just days before passage of the bill he authored.

" Countless others who were also exposed gained a wide variety of mutations and abilities, and Static spends much of his time dealing with these " Bang Babies ", many of whom use their abilities in selfish, harmful, and even criminal ways. Virgil is named after the first African-American to go to law school ( who was himself named for the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid ).

Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university offers 60 degree programs to 4, 400 students through six colleges: business, communication, education, liberal arts and sciences, pharmacy and health sciences, and fine arts.

It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District.