sentences:  In the literature of ancient Rome, the myth was of interest to Augustan writers.Hyginus narrates it in "Fabula" 40, beginning with the bovine love affair of Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun, resulting in the birth of the Minotaur.Ovid narrates the story of Icarus at some length in the "Metamorphoses" (viii.183–235), and refers to it elsewhere.