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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.
Pages in category "Metamorphoses characters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 221 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
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.
Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832). Gogol wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 novella The Old World Landowners. Charles Gounod wrote his opéra comique Philémon et Baucis in 1860. The Lanchester Marionettes created a puppet show Philemon and Baucis in 1952 [4]
Metamorphoses characters (36 C, 221 P) W. Works based on Metamorphoses (9 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Metamorphoses" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of ...
The Metamorphoses is not narrated by Ovid, [c] but rather by the characters in the stories. [15] The myth of Myrrha and Cinyras is sung by Orpheus in the tenth book of Metamorphoses after he has told the myth of Pygmalion [d] and before he turns to the tale of Venus and Adonis. [19]