The use of Greek mythology was widespread among Renaissance literary texts. Ovid's work was used the most because it was an important classical source for the literary tradition of the time. Ovid's Metamorphoses played a very important role in the transmission of a mythological world, thus becoming a suitable framework for poetry. The Elizabethans were thought to be intrigued by mythical gods and their transformations into mortal bodies. These myths represented the nature of the expression of the processes of human emotion and above all the anguish of love. The Metamorphoses implies love as the primary reality of humans, which is why Ovid's writings explore the idea of ​​gods falling in love in human form. Cardinal Wolsey's introduction of The Metamorphoses into the English school curriculum in the 16th century highlighted the influence of Ovid at the time. It became popular with students, like Shakespeare, to learn the poem so that they could adapt and imitate it in Latin verse. Although Shakespeare knew the poem in its Latin form, he preferred Arthur Golding's translated adaptation in 1567. Golding was a moralist whose interpretation of Metamorphoses was that the poem "was a punishment for sexual unnaturalness." However, writers such as Shakespeare and Marlowe were more interested in the romance of the poem than in moralizing the characters' actions. Greek mythology was an essential axis of poetry because it constituted the basis of the erotic love story which was a flourishing poetic theme towards the end of the 16th century. Shakespeare would have been aware of the fantastic reception of these narrative poems and therefore he contributed to the subject by writing the Epyllion of Venus and Adonis in April 1593 which...... middle of paper...... aim . There are many external references to hunting in the poem, particularly in the verse about love, where terms such as "vulture", "wild bird" and "hawk" are associated with Venus. We can perceive that Adonis becomes the hunted, which alludes to the Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon. The tale tells of Diana, the mythological goddess of the hunt, who also falls prey when Actaeon, the heroic Theban hunter, spies on her behind a bush while she is bathing. In traditional romantic poetry, it is usual for the man to cast lustful gazes upon the woman, but Shakespeare plays with convention by making Adonis the object of desire for Venus to hide and watch. The sacred beauty of Adonis presents him as feminine while the pursuit of Venus presents her as masculine and quite aggressive. His aggressiveness is reflected in the crude description of his kisses.