 cannot be escaped entirely - especially since Ovid's story of Myrrha's incest poses a potential reciprocal to the nightmare Byron invents for Sardanapalus, of sympathy with the son who is the object of his mother's 'incest'.In 1997 the myth of Myrrha and Cinyras was one of 24 tales from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" that were retold by English poet Ted Hughes in his poetical work "Tales from Ovid".The work was praised for not directly translating, but instead retelling the story in a language which was as fresh and new for the audience today as Ovid's texts were to his contemporary audience.