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The model for a collection of metamorphosis myths was found in the metamorphosis poetry of the Hellenistic tradition, which is first represented by Boios' Ornithogonia—a now-fragmentary poem of collected myths about the metamorphoses of humans into birds.
Pages in category "Poetry based on Metamorphoses" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In the Metamorphoses she is identified with the re-metamorphosed Io. I: 747, IX: 686-773 [129] Itys: Son of Procne and Tereus. Itys was fed to Tereus by his mother in revenge for Tereus' raping her sister, Philomela, and cutting out her tongue. VI: 437-658 [130] Ixion: Father of Pirithous, and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly.
Like the Metamorphoses, the Fasti was to be a long poem and emulated etiological poetry by writers like Callimachus and, more recently, Propertius and his fourth book. The poem goes through the Roman calendar, explaining the origins and customs of important Roman festivals, digressing on mythical stories, and giving astronomical and ...
Metamorphoses (Transformations) is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.
The fullest surviving and most famous ancient work about transformation in Greek myth is Roman poet Ovid's epic the Metamorphoses. Throughout history, the Metamorphoses has been used not only as a compendium of information on Ancient Greek and Roman lore, but also as a vehicle for allegorical exposition, exegesis, commentaries and adaptations ...
Apollo and Daphne is an Ancient Greek transformation or metamorphosis myth. No written or artistic versions survive from ancient Greek mythology , so it is likely Hellenistic in origin. [ 1 ] It was retold by Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette .
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses is a collection of poems inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.. Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, the two editors of After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, commissioned 42 poets from America, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand to "translate, reinterpret, reflect on, or completely reimagine" Ovid's famous Metamorphoses. [1]