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In the case of an oft-used myth such as that of Io in Book I, which was the subject of literary adaptation as early as the 5th century BCE, and as recently as a generation prior to his own, Ovid reorganises and innovates existing material in order to foreground his favoured topics and to embody the key themes of the Metamorphoses.
Tiepolo's Triumph of Flora (c. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4 [1]. The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [ˈfaːstiː], [2] "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and made public in AD 8.
Diana and Actaeon by Titian; the moment of surprise. The myth of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. [1] The tale recounts the fate of a young hunter named Actaeon, who was a grandson of Cadmus, and his encounter with chaste Artemis, known to the Romans as Diana, goddess of the hunt.
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
Ovid. Metamorphoses, Books I-IV. Translated by John Allen Giles. London: Cornish & Sons. Ovid (1922). Metamorphoses, Book I, vi. Translated by Brookes More. Boston: Cornhill Publishing Co. Petersson, Robert Torsten (2002). Bernini and the Excesses of Art. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 978-88-87700-83-1. Pinton, Daniele (2009).
Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
True enough, in the medieval West, Ovid's work was the principal conduit of Greek myths. [9] Although Ovid's collection is the most known, there are three examples of Metamorphoses by later Hellenistic writers that preceded Ovid's book, but little is known of their contents. [10]
Cover of George Sandys's 1632 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished. This is a list of characters in the poem Metamorphoses by Ovid.It contains more than 200 characters, summaries of their roles, and information on where they appear.