Ovid Book XIII

AJAX & ACHILLE'S ARMOR:     Ajax says that he single handedly defeated the Trojans and deserves glory.

ULYSSES & ACHILLE'S ARMOR:    Odysseus is much more humble in his plea for keeping the armor.
AJAX:    After losing the armor he kills himself with his won sword and Hyacinth appears.
THE FALL OF TROY:     The war is over and as the men get killed the women are drug away by the Greeks.
POLYMESTOR & POLYDORUS:     The King was supposed to hide Priam's son but instead cuts his throat after the war has ended.
POLYXENA:     Achille's shade makes the virgin his sacrifice and she is murdered to appease.
POLYXENA & HECUBA:    The poor mother is left with no sons or daughters and taken captive.
HECUBA, POLYDORUS & POLYMESTOR:     When she learns of her son's death she rips out the lying King's eyes and begins to howl with despair.
AURORA & MEMNON:     The deities son dies and is turned into Memnonides while she continuously weeps and creates dew.
THE VOYAGE OF AENEAS:     One boat of refugees flees Troy in an attempt to  be spared.

THE DAUGHTERS OF ANIUS:      Daughter's trying to flee are turned to white doves.
THE DAUGHTERS OF ORION:     Therses sends Anius a cup with an engraving of how the daughter's sacrificed themselves to save their city from plague.
THE VOYAGE OF AENEAS:       The men sail all over the place and eventually end up at Messina's sands.
GALATEA & ACIS:    A beautiful women is coveted by the Cyclops who kills her husband who then became a river god.
CLAUCUS & SCYLLA:     A monstrous sea god tells his story to a prospective love who breaks his heart by running away in fear.

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XII

IPHIGENIA:       The fleet in pursuit of Helen cannot continue until the sacrifice Agamemnon's virgin daughter but she is spared at the last second.

RUMOR:     She lets the Trojans know that the Greeks are coming!
ACHILLES & CYCNUS:     Two men who seem to be immune to physical pain in a fight.
CAENIS/CAENUS:      A beautiful women gets raped and wishes to be a man so that nothing can hurt her again, Neptune grants the wish and also gave her immunity to wounds.
LAPITHS & CENTAURS:      Being drunk has its consequences for the centaurs who get a little too frisky; they all get killed rather grotesque and violently.
CYLLARUS:     A handsome centaur also perishes and his wife, distraught, casts herself on the same spear.
CAENUS:     The massacre is ended when the centaurs gang up and suffocate their killer, but before he is crushed completely be becomes a bird and flies off.

HERCULES & PERICLYMENUS:       The old storyteller confesses his hatred of Hercules for killing his brother while he was in the shape of an eagle flying away.
THE DEATH OF ACHILLES:      Neptune is still angry over Cycnus' defeat that he calls upon Apollo to guide one of Paris' arrow into the susceptible spot.

One big bang vs.repeated cycles

All this talk about the "lifting of the veil" and the zombie/nuclear/alien/rapture-tribulation end of the world have got me thinking about whether or not I believe in literal or mythical eschatology. And I don't claim to know which one is right and which one is wrong. Like most contradictions in this (like to believed) black-and-white world, I feel that the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
I do go to church though, so that causes some biased opinion on the whole reincarnation-metempsychosis thing and therefore I don't buy into the cyclical eschatology in regards to coming back as different objects/beings. Although once again, I do not claim that this view is neither wrong nor right.The thought of not eating meat intrigues me since it IS possible that the life form is my great uncle, but that won't stop me for devouring and digesting it. But I do think that the important life lesson out of metempsychosis is the idea that we need to have respect for all things. whether that be animals, or nature, or even a brick wall; respect is the key. But I digressed (or maybe not).
The balance between the two (for me) is the notion that cyclical mythology occurs when our perceived view of the world around us changes. and I think that in that aspect, I have suffered many apocalypses already! and then my Religious upbringing kicks in (Protestant, not Jewish) and I believe that when Christ comes back he will bring an "eschatological" end for the earth as we know it as well. Both will occur, and one has been and will continue to be occurring all throughout my lifetime.
I realize that there are a LOT smarter people than I in the universe that will think what I just said is complete rubbish, and that there are also a LOT dumber people that will view it as complete bull shit as well. *The respect thing comes into play here; it doesn't matter if your view is different than someone else's because your view will change. and in the end regardless of which apocalypse you believe in we ALL die.
I think that how I continue to perceive my world will change a few more thousand times before I kick the can. Especially during the phase where what my parents taught me to believe differs from what I'm discovering to believe. An example of both occurring is the notion that we measure everything in years. I just had a birthday and every single person asks "Do you feel older than last year?" Why LAST year. Why last YEAR. why can't it be two days ago or 10348634098623409863098345 minutes ago? We already perceive our world on a cyclical yearly basis. But I think everyone will agree that it is not the actual 365 days that make us feel older or give us a new outlook, it's the events; the mythological eschatology, changing of our minds, witnessing something sublime, fearing death, taking on a new identity, losing weight, getting married, getting divorced, having kids, etc. THOSE are the apocalypse. and although change is scary, it should not be feared to the point of debilitation and so for all those zombie and radical end of the world freaks, calm down! You have nothing to fear. I guess maybe the rapture will bring forth a literal end but I'm guessing that I'll already be dead by then and those on the earth that are left can create their own interpretation of what's to come. the important thing is that what's to come has already been done before and will change something within you. What's to come is Mythology!

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI

ORPHEUS:       The poet is attacked by a frenzy of women and is torn from limb to limb but bitter sweetly meets his love in the end.
THE BACCHANTES:        The God is saddened by Orpheus' death so turns the followers who killed him into oak trees.
MIDAS:     The foolish king asks for gold but then learns his lesson only to witness a lyre contest and be cursed with the ears of an ass.
TROY:     An untruthful king pays for not following through with paying some in-disguise Gods.
PELEUS & THETIS:       Jove is warned to not sleep with the Goddess so he gives the task to Peleus, his grandson, who must tie the girl down to win her as a bride; how romantic.
CEYX:       Peleus accidentally kills his own brother and seeks refuge in Ceyx's city.
DAEDALION:       Ceyx's own brother is a hawk who leaped to kill himself after his foolish daughter's downfall.
THE WOLF:      Revenge gave birth to a ravage wolf who was only stopped by Thetis' mercy for her husband.
CEYX & ALCYONE:      The king goes on a voyage and never comes back but both are turned to birds so as to still be together.
 
AESACUS:    Hector's brother is at fault for the death of his lover so he tries to die as well only to be turned into a bird who forever dives to feel death.

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book X

ORPHEUS & EURYDICE:    A man wishes to get his wife from the Underworld but looks back too soon and loses her forever.

CYPARISSUS:     A young boy accidentally kills his beloved stag and wished eternal mourning as a tree.
ORPHEUS' PROLOGUE:      Stricken with grief the musician begins his a song in a meadow.
GANYMEDE:     Jove now rapes (kidnaps) a boy who prepares Jove's nectar.
HYACINTHUS:      Apollo's love for a boy is the destruction and H's blood turns to a flower.
THE CERASTES:      Inhabitants that used to sacrifice strangers are turned into savage bulls.
THE PROPOETIDES:      The girl inhabitants were cursed to prostitute their grace and then turn to stone.
PYGMALIOM:     A man despises women so much that he makes his own out of ivory and falls in love with her.

MYRRHA & CINYRAS:     A daughter seduces her own father and turns into a tree, pregnant with his seed.
THE BIRTH OF ADONIS:      The beautiful babe is born of a tree full of disgrace.
VENUS & ADONIS:      The goddess warns her lover to not hung courageous beasts.
ATALANTA & HIPPOMENES:       The race for either a wife or death ends in good spirits with the help of three golden apples, but he forgets to be thankful and both are turned to lions.

THE FATE OF ADONIS:     The boy fails to heed the warning and hunts a boar who sinks him in the groin and as he dies Venus turns his blood to the floor anemone.

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX

ACHELOUS & HERCULES:     Both men want Deianira's hand in marriage and fight for her, but Hercules strength overpowers the river-god and a cornucopia is used by Abundance made of his horn.

HERCULES, DEIANIRA, NESSUS:     The evil satyr tricks poor D into believing her husband is cheating but as he takes her across the river, Hercules shoots him, and his dying breath is to give a shirt of "magic."

HERCULES & DEIANIRA:      The poor girl thinks she is giving a love spell and instead the shirt of flame burns chunks of flesh and cannot be taken off.
ALCMENA:      Hercules' mother tells her granddaughter the story of his delivery and how Juno had not been successful with her attempt to prevent the birth and had taken her anger out on a poor maiden.
DRYOPE:      The granddaughter tells of her poor sister who ate berries off the wrong tree and was turned into a tree herself.
IOLAUS:     Hercule's nephew was given the gift of rejuvenation and all the other gods and goddesses wanted it for their children as well.
BYBLIS & CAUNUS:      A sister falls madly in love with her brother and goes too crazy to function so is made into an eternal fountain.
IPHIS & IANTHE:       A baby's sex is hidden so as not to be killed and on the eve of the wedding, she is changed from a girl to a man to wed his bride.

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VIII

SCYLLA, NISUS, MINOS:     Out of love a daughter betrays her father and loses the war to Minos, who rejects the girl as both of the betrayed turn to birds.
DAEDALUS, THE MINOTAUR, THESEUS, ARIADNE:     The haughty king neglects to sacrifice all the bulls and is punished a half-bull son who he locks away until Theseus with help from the king's own daughter slays him.
DAEDALUS & ICARUS:    The father creates wings but the naiive son flies too close and falls to his death.
 
DAEDALUS & PERDIX:     The nephew was proving to be a better innovator so Daedalus pushed him to his death, but he was spared and turned into a bird who is afraid to fly too high.
THE CALYDONIAN HUNT:     Diana's wrath has a huge boar killing hunters but Atalanta and Meleager kill the beast.
ALTHAEA & MELEAGER:       A mother wants vengeance against a son for killing his brothers so burns the symbol of his life and then kills herself as the daughter mourn and turn to guinea-hens.

THESEUS & ACHELOUS:     The river God begs Theseus to rest for the night.
THE ECHINADES & PERIMELE:     The river God turned 5 nymphs who had forgotten to invite him to a party to islands and a sixth is his lost love whose father threw her from a cliff.
BAUCIS & PHILEMON:     An old couple gives shelter to Gods in disguise and become priests of the temple and then die together and become trees.
ERYSICHTHON'S SIN:     A stupid man cuts down a sacred tree of Ceres and another who tried to stop him.
ERYSICHTHON & FAMINE:      Ceres calls upon Famine to curse the sinner, making him always want more.
ERYSICHTHON'S DAUGHTER:     She gets sold for her father's addiction but changes shape to deceive her masters.

ACHELOUS:     The river-god reminds the group of how he can change shapes as well and shows his missing horn.