Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.

* Aganippis is a name used by Ovid as an epithet of Hippocrene ; its meaning however is not quite clear.

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.

She responded to his sweet-talk ( verbis mollibus ) by attempting the same ruse ; however, as Ovid points out in a characteristic moment of comedy and cruelty colliding, the two faces of Janus allow him to see what goes on behind, and Cranaë was unable to elude him.

Golding ’ s translation, however, being read by Shakespeare and Spenser, " conveys a spirited Ovid with all his range of emotion and diversity of plot.

Some vivid snapshots of daily life are preserved in Latin literary genres such as comedy, satire, and poetry, particularly the poems of Catullus and Ovid, which offer glimpses of women in Roman dining rooms and boudoirs, at sporting and theatrical events, shopping, putting on makeup, practicing magic, worrying about pregnancy — all, however, through male eyes.

The Roman poet Ovid, however, states in his Metamorphoses that Morpheus is a son of Hypnos, rather than his brother ( it does not mention the identity of the mother ), and multiplies the Oneiroi into an uncountable host of spirits, with Morpheus, Icelus and Phantasos being merely the most prominent among them.

When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil, as well as of original lyrics, dramas, and an epic of four thousand lines on the origin of the Swiss confederations, writings which he is said on one occasion to have rescued from a fire at the risk of his life, only, however, to burn them a little later ( 1729 ) with his own hand.

As concerns public rites nothing of them survives, however on this day as described by Ovid, an old drunken woman ( anus ebria ) sits in a circle with other girls performing rites in the name of the Mute Goddess ( Tacita ) who is identified with the nymph Lara or Larunda.

This lake is called " Pergus " by Ovid and Claudian, but it is remarkable that neither Cicero nor Diodorus speaks of any lake in particular as the scene of the occurrence: the former however says, that around Enna were lacus lucique plurimi, et laetissimi flores omni tempore anni.

The superficial brilliance, however, befuddles even scholars ( paradoxically, Ovid consequently tended in the 20th century to be underrated as lacking in seriousness ).

In Cruttwell's introduction, the Golden Age is dated 80 BC – 14 AD (" from Cicero to Ovid "), which is about the same as Teuffel's.

While all ancient sources ( excluding Ovid ) dated the end of this period and start of the mythical ( mythikón ) period to 2376 – 2050 BC, most did not claim to know when the creation ( ádelon period ) exactly began.

An elegy of Ovid dated to 2 BCE makes it clear that Propertius was dead by this time.

Most ancient Greek and Roman chroniclers, poets, grammarians and scholars ( Eratosthenes, Varro, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid, Censorinus, Catullus, and Castor of Rhodes ) believed in a threefold division of history: ádelon ( obscure ), mythikón ( mythical ) and historikón ( historical ) periods.

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

This period began with the first known speech of Cicero and ended with the death of Ovid.

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.

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 ).

Other than the historian Livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.

Although Ovid protests Siqua fides arti, quam longo fecimus usu, / Credite: praestabunt carmina nostra fidem (" If you trust art's promise that I've long employed / my songs will offer you their promise "), and his erotic advice indicates a supposed broad understanding of female psychology, in part he is following a literary tradition, especially the two previous exponents of the Latin love-elegy, Propertius and Tibullus, and the ( mostly lost ) erotic poetry of the Greek Hellenistic period.

In 1877 he published Chaucer: Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwickelung und zur Chronologie seiner Schriften, a study which analyzed Chaucer's literary models and verse forms to determine the later widely accepted division of the poet's works into three periods: a first period during which he was mostly influenced by French models as well as by Ovid ; a second period during which his main inspiration came from Italian models ( Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch ); and a third period of mature literary production.

* Golden age of Latin literature, the period in Latin literature between Cicero and Ovid.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.

The poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, records the best-known myth that explains the association of the cypress with grief.

Ovid gives a poetic account of the priesthood of Nemi in his Fasti, Book 3 ( on the month of March ), noting that the lake of Nemi was " sacred to antique religion ," and that the priest who dwelt there " holds his reign by strong hands and fleet feet, and dies according to the example he set himself.

This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

Ovid also mentions a centauress named Hylonome who committed suicide when her husband Cyllarus was killed in the war with the Lapiths.

Ovid was a witty writer who excelled in creating lively and passionate characters.

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

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

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 ).

According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.

Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

Ovid in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the deification of Romulus and his wife Hersilia, who are given the new names of Quirinus and Hora respectively.

This Acoetes was, according to Ovid, the son of a poor fisherman in Maeonia, who served as pilot in a ship.

Hyginus, whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian Sea from them.

Ovid included Oedipus in Metamorphoses, but only as the person who defeated the Sphinx.

According to the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis ( or Iphys ) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete.

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

According to Ovid, it was Themis rather than Zeus who told Deucalion to throw the bones of " his Mother " over his shoulder to create a new race of humankind after the Deluge.

From his later place of exile, where he was sent for an unnamed offense against Augustus having to do with free speech, Ovid lamented the lost companionship of his fellow poets, who apparently saw the Liberalia as an opportunity for uninhibited talking.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

In the opening lines of the poem Dryden describes King Cinyras just as Ovid did as a man who had been happier if he had not become a father.

In the version followed by Ovid in Metamorphoses, Galanthis was the red-gold haired servant of Alcmene, who assisted her during the birth of Heracles.

In a version presented by Ovid, it is the river Anio who takes pity on her and invites her to rule in his realm.

Ovid then tells that Anna Perenna was the same Anna who appears in Virgil's Aeneid as Dido's sister and that after Dido's death, Carthage was attacked by the Numidians and Anna was forced to flee.

Ovid wrote that the fountain was in the middle of the Temple of Venus Genetrix and surrounded by statues of nymphs who were called " The Appiades " ( plural form of Appias ).

He then identifies her as the goddess of the hinge, who is elsewhere known as Cardea, a name Ovid does not use: " By means of her divine presence ( numen ) she opens things that have been closed, and closes things that have been opened.