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Crocus was unhappy with his love affair with the nymph Smilax, and he was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name, the crocus . Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed. [2] [3] [4]
Referenced in Thom Gunn's poem "Philemon and Baucis" in The Man with Night Sweats. Barbey d'Aurevilly describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story "Happiness in Crime" from the collection Les Diaboliques. The narrator in Max Frisch's 1964 novel Gantenbein refers to the main characters as Baucis and Philemon for a whole chapter.
Crocus was said to be a beloved of Hermes and was accidentally killed by the god in a game of discus when he unexpectedly stood up; as the unfortunate youth's blood dripped on the soil, the saffron flower came to be. [202] Perseus received the divine items (talaria, petasos, and the helm of darkness) from Hermes because he loved him. [203]
Crocus ("saffron") Saffron plant: Hermes: Crocus was a male lover of Hermes. One day, when the two were playing a game of discus, Crocus unexpectedly stood up as Hermes was throwing his discus, and ended up getting hit and dying. Hermes then turned his dead lover into the saffron plant. Cyparissus ("cypress") Cypress: Apollo or Silvanus
Hermaphroditus complains and objects to the fact by invoking Hermes in an oath, while Silenus invokes Pan for the reliability of his allegations. [25] Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "Hermaphroditus" in Poems and Ballads is subscribed Au Musée du Louvre, Mars 1863, leaving no doubt that it was the Borghese Hermaphroditus that had inspired ...
56. I love you past the moon and beyond the stars. 57. Someone so special can never be forgotten; may your soul rest in peace. 58. The loss is immeasurable, but so is the love left behind.
In the poem, Hesiod also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Works and Days is perhaps best known for its two mythological aetiologies for the toil and pain that define the human condition —the story of Prometheus and Pandora , and the so-called Myth of Five Ages .
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.