The Hero with a Thousand Faces on Metamorphoses: “The chapters of Ovid's Metamorphoses swarm with nymphs beset by gods in sundry masquerades: Jove as a bull, a swan, a shower of gold.”
Necessity on Metamorphoses: Epigraph: "And now the work is done that cannot be erased by Jupiter's anger, fire and sword, nor the gnawing tooth of time..." —OVID, envoi to Metamorphoses
Contact on Metamorphoses: “he would declaim to the astonished onlookers from Book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses: Monarch of Violence, rolling on clouds...”
Italo Calvino on Metamorphoses: “the central city Baucis recalls the myth of Baucis and Philemon, which is also the central tale of Ovid's Metamorphoses”
The Uses of Literature on Metamorphoses: Discussed at length in "Ovid and Universal Contiguity" as aiming to represent all that is worth telling of what has been passed down by literature
The Essays on Metamorphoses: “The first taste which I had for books came to me from the pleasure in reading the fables of Ovid's Metamorphoses; for, being about seven or eight years old, I gave up all other diversions to read them…”