 Rather than aberrant, the Ovidian characters come to feel exemplary".In 1700 English poet John Dryden published his translations of myths by Ovid, Homer, and Boccaccio in the volume "Fables, Ancient and Modern".Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay "Dryden's "Cinyras and Myrrha"" that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.