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The 20 pages that link to Ovid, each with the reason it gives.

• ExileRelated: His poems from banishment helped establish exile as a literary theme.

• Latin literatureRelated: His inventive mythology became one of Latin literature’s most influential sources.

• Classical mythologyRelated: His retellings became a major conduit for classical myth in later European culture.

• Roman mythologyRelated: His poems became major literary witnesses to Roman retellings of divine stories.

• EroticismRelated: His poetry shows erotic themes shaped by wit, performance, and Roman literary culture.

• ShapeshiftingRelated: His retellings shaped later European depictions of transformation.

• A Midsummer Night's DreamRelated: His Pyramus and Thisbe story is the source for the craftsmen’s entertainment.

• Luis de GóngoraRelated: Ovidian myth supplies many of the classical stories Góngora recasts in verse.

• Roman de la RoseRelated: Jean de Meun draws on Ovidian writing about erotic desire and its management.

• John GowerRelated: Gower adapts Ovidian stories in Confessio Amantis to examine desire and moral choice.

• John William WaterhouseRelated: Ovid’s poem provided a classical source for Waterhouse’s Echo and Narcissus.

• The Feast of the GodsRelated: Ovid's account of the gods' feast helped inform interpretations of the gathering.

• CatullusRelated: Ovid inherited Catullus’s playful, self-conscious treatment of erotic poetry.

• GorgonsRelated: His account makes Medusa’s transformation into a Gorgon part of her story.

• Sleeping HermaphroditusRelated: His account is a major ancient literary source for the sculpture’s mythological subject.

• Women of TrachisRelated: His retelling of Heracles’ death offers a later Roman version of the myth dramatized by Sophocles.