Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance.Moss, Ann, ed. Latin Commentaries on Ovid Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (ŏv`ĭd), 43 B.C.–A.D. 18, Latin poet, b. Sulmo (present-day Sulmona), in the Apennines. Although trained for the law, he preferred the company of the literary coterie at Rome. He enjoyed early and widespread fame as a poet and was known to the emperor Augustus. In A.D. from the Renaissance. (Library of Renaissance Humanism.) Signal Mountain: Summertown, 1999. xv + 260 pp. bibl, index. $45. ISBN: 1-893009-02-5. Designed to provide insight into "Renaissance habits of reading and writing poetic fiction," this chronologically ordered compendium contains sixteenth and seventeenth-century commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as a brief introductory analysis of each. In order to facilitate comparison, and provide a sense of how commentators served as "purveyors (World-Wide Web) Purveyor - A World-Wide Web server for Windows NT and Windows 95 (when available). http://www.process.com/. E-mail: Daphne, in Greek mythologyDaphne (dăf`nē), in Greek mythology, a nymph. She was loved by Apollo and by Leucippus, a mortal who disguised himself as a nymph to be near her. When Leucippus betrayed his sex while bathing, the nymphs tore him to pieces., Actaeon Actaeon (ăktē`ən), in Greek mythology, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë. Because he saw Artemis bathing naked, she changed him into a stag, and his own dogs killed him., Echo and NarcissusNarcissus, in the BibleNarcissus (närsĭs`əs), in the New Testament, Roman whose household was partly Christian.Narcissus, in Roman historyNarcissus, d. A.D. 54, secretary of the Roman Emperor Claudius I.), as well as the full text of these fables and a facing page translation taken from George Sandys's Ovid's Metamorphosisfatty metamorphosis fatty change. met·a·mor·pho·sis (m  t  -môr Englished (1632).
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