Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the "Metamorphoses". The reliefs depict motifs from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Acis and Galatea are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The story comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and concerns Semele, mother of Bacchus. Benjamin Britten based one of his "Six Metamorphoses after Ovid" on Niobe. Similar creatures are found in classical literature, particularly Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Arthur Golding dedicated his popular translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to the Earl. Ovid's much briefer version of the tale occurs in book ten of his "Metamorphoses". Artists also drew inspiration from Ovid's description of the birth of Venus in his "Metamorphoses". Perdix is mentioned in book VIII of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". His "Tales from Ovid" (1997) contains a selection of free verse translations from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". This is a list of characters in the poem "Metamorphoses" by Ovid. He produced the first translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in English. Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Ovid discusses Palamedes' role in the Trojan War in the "Metamorphoses".