Ovid Book III Margin Notes

Cadmus: Cadmus, banished for his failure to find Europa, asks Apollo's Oracle where he should fo to make his home. He is sent to follow a cow which leads him to ford the Cephisus River, cross the fields of Panope to a beautiful land. Here, setting up camp, he sends his servants to find water. They are all killed and he ends up going in search of them. He finds a huge snake has killed them all and he kills it, pinning it to a tree. Minerva tells him he will die similarly and to plant the serpent's teeth. When he does this warriors grow from the teeth and fight him. He kills all of them but five and lives, though it seems like he may have died the way Minerva said, the way it reads initially. The five, warned by Athena, cast down their weapons and, at Cadmus' side, found Thebes.

Actaeon: Out hunting, Actaeon goes to find a place to set up camp or return home and runs into Diana's personal woods where she is bathing in her pool. She splashes him with water and the water turns him into a stag. His own hunting dogs see him, chase him and rip him to shreds. All have an opinion of Diana's harsh punishment but Juno who is simply glad to see tragedy strike Europa's bloodline.

Semele: Juno discovers that Semele is preggers with Jove's child and she goes and, under the disguise of Semele's old nurse, convinces her to ask to see Jove in all his godliness. She does so and when he reveals himself she is reduced to ash. Before incineration, Jove pulls his fetus son from Semele's womb and sews him up in his thigh for the rest of his gestation. Once born Ino cares for the boy for a while before he is handed off to the Nysan nymphs.

Tiresias: Tiresias is chosen by Juno and Jove in secret to settle the argument of who has the greater pleasure from sex. Tiresias lives seven years as a man and seven as a woman having sex and then , when summoned, he chooses the female. Juno is grieved by this and strips Tiresias of his sight but Jove, seeing the unfairness of this, grants him the sight of prophets.

Okay, so this might be a stretch but it's what I could come up with...

Pentheus: Liriope the nymph is had by the river god Cephisus. Their child is Narcissus. Narcissus is beauty and everyone tries to be with him but he scorns all and when Echo, damned for impeding Jove's pursuit of the nymphs to only repeat what others have said, displays her love for him he scorns her and she flees and wastes away to nothing but a voice. Narcissus is then damned by a scorned suitor and he falls in love with his own reflection in a pond. He refuses food for he would have to leave his reflection and drink for it would disturb his image so he wastes away. No body is found, in the place where he died they find a flower.

Pentheus: Pentheus, a seer himself, feels Tiresias is stepping on his prophetic turf and confronts him. Tiresias tells him his future and is ignored. Pentheus then hears Bacchus has arrived with his procession and believes Bacchus to be a false god so he has his servants capture one of his followers who tells of how he came to follow Bacchus. He then has his servants chain Bacchus' follower up to torture him but they, after prepping their tools, come back to find him gone. Pentheus goes to find him at Bacchus' mountain and hears the chants of his followers which enrages him. He heads closer and his mother rips him apart, thinking he is a boar, for disturbing their rites and proceedings.