reflected in epic, especially in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Tragic themes do not simply refer to subject matter however and can also be used in reference to...
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Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōsēs, from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid...
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(1951) Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten, for solo oboe, evokes images of Ovid's characters from Metamorphoses. (1960) God Was Born in Exile...
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half of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story of Eros and Psyche is not a part of Ovid's Metamorphoses; it is from Lucius Apuleius' novel Metamorphoses —also...
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'The Loves') is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account...
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Ovid's Ibis is a highly artificial and history-bound product and does not make pleasant reading. But it is interesting, among other things, because it...
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Icarus (category Metamorphoses characters)
Virgil's Aeneid (vi.14–33); and Ovid's Metamorphoses (viii.183–235). A number of other ancient writers allude to the story in passing, notably Lucian. The...
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Romeo (category Literary characters introduced in 1597)
far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano's Il...
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Philomela (category Metamorphoses into birds in Greek mythology)
assistance in fighting Thebes. Dryden, John; Addison, Joseph; Eusden, Laurence; Garth, Sir Samuel (translators). Ovid. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books...
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Myrrha (category Metamorphoses into trees in Greek mythology)
Styron. "Ovid Illustrated: The Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text - Abbé Banier's Ovid commentary Englished from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Garth...
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Fasti (poem) (redirect from Ovid's Fasti)
Virgil's Aeneid and Eclogues, most notably in the long section on Anna in Book 3. As in the Metamorphoses, Ovid's use of Virgil is multifaceted; he often...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (redirect from The Courier's Tragedy)
arrival in San Narciso, Oedipa stops to check in at the Echo Courts Motel, which sports a painted sheet metal likeness of the nymph Echo from Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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Fames (category Metamorphoses characters)
several evils who inhabit the entrance to the Underworld. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she lives in Scythia, a desolate place where she scrabbles unceasingly...
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Pentheus (category Metamorphoses into animals in Greek mythology)
discussed by Ovid in Book III of his Metamorphoses. Ovid's version diverges from Euripides' work in several areas. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus...
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it. In the case of Ovid's striges, they threatened to do more harm than that. They were said to disembowel an infant and feed on its blood. Ovid allows...
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Pyramus and Thisbe (category Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology)
ill-fated lovers from Babylon, whose story is best known from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses. The tragic myth has been retold by many authors. Pyramus...
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Phaethon (category Metamorphoses characters)
Euripides' lost play can be easily recognized in Ovid's own version of the myth. Another possible inspiration of Ovid's version might have been Nicander, who...
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Lernaean Hydra (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
6 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 69 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD) Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 129 & 158 ff Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 192...
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Narcissus (mythology) (category Metamorphoses into flowers in Greek mythology)
second century AD, and a more popular one from Ovid, published before 8 AD, found in Book 3 of his Metamorphoses. This is the story of Echo and Narcissus,...
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Cretan Bull (category Monsters in Greek mythology)
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8. 130 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD) Ovid, Metamorphoses 8. 136 ff Ovid, Metamorphoses 8. 155 ff Ovid...
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Remedia Amoris, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, his lost tragedy Medea, the ambitious Metamorphoses and the Fasti. The latter two works were left, respectively...
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Muses (category Musicians in Greek mythology)
and robbing him of his singing ability. According to a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses—alluding to the connection of Pieria with the Muses—Pierus, king...
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was an Italian poet. His verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (the complete version was published in 1561) was often reprinted and has been highly...
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Orpheus (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
wife's name, the libretto is based entirely upon books X and XI of Ovid's Metamorphoses and therefore Orpheus's viewpoint is predominant). Subsequent operatic...
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Actaeon (category Metamorphoses into animals in Greek mythology)
Aristeides, 11.3 & 4. Apollodorus, 3.4.4. Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book III, 206–235) Hyginus Fabulae 181 In this list, Hyginus fails to correctly differentiate...
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Peleus (category Kings in Greek mythology)
Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.90-93, in Peter Green's translation (2007:45). Aristophanes, The Clouds 1063-1067 Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.219-74 Photius, Bibliotheca...
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Daphne (opera) (category Operas based on Metamorphoses)
from Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes elements taken from The Bacchae by Euripides. The first performance of the opera took place at the Semperoper in Dresden...
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Tisiphone (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
thousands" during the battle between Mezentius and Aeneas's men. In Book IV of Ovid's Metamorphoses, she is described as a denizen of Dis who wears a dripping...
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Cerberus (category Metamorphoses into flowers in Greek mythology)
fragment 31 Fowler). Virgil, Aeneid 6.419, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.500–501. Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.22–24 Ovid, Heroides 9.93–94 (pp. 114–115). Seneca, Hercules...
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Hippolytus of Athens (category Metamorphoses characters)
Phaedra and Hippolytus in a ritual song. Versions of this story also appear in Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, and Jean...
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