Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text by Ovid ....The first illustrated edition of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures.The Metamorphoses is the most comprehensive,
creative mythological work from antiquity. Ovid's influence on Western art and literature cannot be exaggerated. The compilation of 250 myths was a major inspiration for Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.
