Contents List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Re-Inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses Karl Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong PART 1: Printed Cycles of Ovid's Metamorphoses , Book Illustrations, and Commentaries 2 Non-Ovidian "Immigrants" in Printed Illustration Cycles of the Metamorphoses Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich & Sabine Lütkemeyer 3 "Fabula ad mores relata." Commenting on Ovid's Metamorphoses in Early Modern Times: the Example of the Phaethon Episode Robert Seidel 4 Isaac De Benserade's Inventiveness in Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux (1676) on the Basis of Love Threads Woven by Arachne Barbara Hryszko PART 2: Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Painting and Prints 5 Olympic Adultery. Italian Escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan Jan L. de Jong 6 From Original Sin to Pornography: Pictorial Translations of the Salmacis Myth, ca. 1500-1800 Karl Enenkel 7 Playing with the Gods: Nicolas Poussin's Reinvention of Ovidian Myths Leonie Drees-Drylie 8 Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German States Daniel Fulco PART 3: Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Applied Arts 9 From Laurel to Coral: the Jamnitzer Daphnes Noam Andrews 10 Adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain Morgan J. Macey PART 4: Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Literature 11 The Hounds of Desire: Elizabethan Variations on Ovid's Actaeon Episode Daniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz 12 Reinventing Ovidian Themes in Viceregal Peru: the Remaking of Fertility Myths in a Quechuan Play Andrea Lozano-Vásquez and Patricia Zalamea PART 5: Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Theory of Literature and Art Theory 13 Morphings at Meta-Levels: Ovid, John Dryden, and the Art of Likeness in Translation Kerstin Maria Pahl 14 Petrification and Animation: the Myth of Perseus as a Metaphor for the 'Paragone' in Early Modern Art Claudia Cieri Via Index Nominum.