Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae of Hyginus, and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having engineered the tragic liaison.

In the Metamorphoses by Antoninus Liberalis, written somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd century A. D., the myth is set in Phoenicia, near Mount Lebanon.

* Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2

Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis ; Georgica, of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.

* Trzaskoma, Stephen M .. Antoninus Liberalis: three sections from Metamorphoses: Hierax ; Aigypios ; The Dorians

The Delphic oracle at last declared the cause of her illnesses to be the wrath of the offended goddess ; whereupon her father consented to her marriage with Acontius ( Aristaenetus, Epistolae, i. 10 ; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, i, tells the story with different names, see Ctesylla ).

The earliest recorded tale of the strix is from the lost Ornithologia of the Greek author Boios, which is partially preserved in Antoninus Liberalis's Metamorphoses.

* Metamorphoses, by Antoninus Liberalis

* Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses ( XLI ).

* Metamorphoses: Poetry and Translation ( Carcanet Press, 2003 )

who from an under-spur-leather to the Law, is become an under-strapper to the Play-house, who has lately burlesqu'd the Metamorphoses of Ovid by a vile Translation " ( Remarks on Pope's Homer p. 90 ).

* Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567 ( 1965 )

* Ovid's Metamorphoses trans.

* Ovid's Metamorphoses trans.

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.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.

Metamorphoses 12. 620 – 13. 398.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, while in labour, Alcmene was having difficulty giving birth to such a large child.

In Metamorphoses, an aging Alcmene recounted the story of the birth of Heracles to Iole.

Metamorphoses.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.

Ovid's Metamorphoses collects more transformation stories in its 14th book.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses xiv. 248-308

Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.

The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus ' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses ( VIII: 183-235 ) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public.

The Countess of Oxford was the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the scholar who translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English.

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.

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.

This is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX.

Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

* Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI 140, VII 74, 94, 174, 177, 194, 241, XIV 44, 405.

Metamorphoses.

Her description in the poem is also related to Isis of Apuleius's Metamorphoses, but Isis was a figure of redemption and the Abyssinian maid cries out for her demon-lover.

Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses weaves various myths into a fast-paced, fascinating story.

The Metamorphoses was the best-known source of Roman mythology throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The most famous work of the period was Metamorphoses, also called The Golden Ass, by Apuleius.

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.

Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

One of these springs was upon the Muses ' Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene (" horse spring "), opened, Antoninus Liberalis suggested, at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling with rapture at the song of the Muses ; another was at Troezen.

* Antoninus Liberalis writes a work on mythology ( Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη ) ( approximate date ).

According to a later tradition preserved in Antoninus Liberalis, Aëdon is instead the wife of Polytechnos, an artist of Colophon.

In the second or third century AD, Antoninus Liberalis tells of another Aegyptos, who was a young man of Thessaly.

A similar tale is told by Antoninus Liberalis, although he names the maiden Arsinoe, and her lover Arceophon.

Antoninus Liberalis said that Iphigenia was transported to the island of Leuke, where she was wedded to immortalized Achilles under the name of Orsilochia.

Among the scholars who recounted it are Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Antoninus Liberalis.

Yet another Cycnus was a son of Apollo by Hyrie or Thyrie, daughter of Amphinomus ; the story concerning him is recorded by Antoninus Liberalis.

Plutarch, Aelian, and Antoninus Liberalis, though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in the Dionysian Mysteries.

According to Antoninus Liberalis, Cerambus was punished for claiming that the nymphs of Mount Othrys were daughters of Spercheus by Deino.

Antoninus Liberalis again portrays Byblis as overcome with unanswered love for her brother ; after Caunus leaves, she rejects the proposals of numerous suitors and attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but is saved by Hamadryads, who cause her to fall asleep and transform her into a fellow nymph.

The account of Antoninus Liberalis makes Galinthias a daughter of the Theban Proetus, and a playmate of Alcmene.

He also edited ( 1568 ) the geographical lexicon of Stephanus of Byzantium ; the travels of Pausanias ( completed after his death by Friedrich Sylburg, 1583 ); the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius ( 1558, the editio princeps based on a Heidelberg manuscript now lost ; a second edition in 1568 with the addition of Antoninus Liberalis, Phlegon of Tralles, an unknown Apollonius, and Antigonus of Carystus -- all paradoxographers ); and the chronicle of George Cedrenus ( 1566 ).

Antoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300.

Antoninus Liberalis: Les Métamorphoses ( Paris, Budé, 1968 ) First translation into French ; extensive notes and indices, except on linguistic questions ; probably at present the standard text.

* Encycyclopaedia Britannica 1911: " Antoninus Liberalis ".

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