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It contains more than 200 characters, summaries of their roles, and information on where they appear. The descriptions vary in length and comprehensiveness, upgrading characters who were actually metamorphosed, who play a significant role, or about whom a certain background knowledge is required to understand the Metamorphoses.
C. Cadmus; Caeneus; Calchas; Calliope; Callisto (mythology) Canens (mythology) Cassandra; Caunos (mythology) Cecrops I; Cephalus (son of Deione/Deioneus) Chariclo
The Metamorphoses was preserved through the Roman period of Christianization. [citation needed] Though the Metamorphoses did not suffer the ignominious fate of the Medea, no ancient scholia on the poem survive (although they did exist in antiquity [65] [page needed]), and the earliest complete manuscript is very late, dating from the 11th century.
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.
Other works include Boios's Ornithogonia (which included tales of humans becoming birds) and little-known Antoninus Liberalis's own Metamorphoses, which drew heavily from Nicander and Boios. [13] Below is a list of permanent and involuntary transformations featured in Greek and Roman mythological corpus.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phobetor (Ancient Greek: Φοβήτωρ; [1] 'Frightener' from Ancient Greek: φόβος, phobos, 'fear' 'panic'), [2] so called by men, or Icelos (Ancient Greek: Ἴκελος; 'Like'), [3] so called by the gods, is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep). He appeared in dreams "in the form of beast or bird or the ...
The three brothers' names are found nowhere earlier than Ovid, and are perhaps Ovidian inventions. [9] Tripp calls these three figures "literary, not mythical concepts". [10] However, Griffin suggests that this division of dream forms between Morpheus and his brothers, possibly including their names, may have been of Hellenistic origin. [11]
The story of Pan and Syrinx is the inspiration for the first movement in Benjamin Britten's work for solo oboe, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid first performed in 1951. Britten titled the movement, "Pan: who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved." Maurice Ravel incorporated the character of the Syrinx into his ballet Daphnis et ...