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In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.
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In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.
According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, while in labour, Alcmene was having difficulty giving birth to such a large child.
Ovid's Metamorphoses collects more transformation stories in its 14th book.
The Countess of Oxford was the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the scholar who translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English.
In Hyginus ' report, Cephalus accidentally killed Procris some time later after he mistook her for an animal while hunting ; in Ovid's Metamorphoses vii, Procris, a jealous wife, was spying on him and heard him singing to the wind, but thought he was serenading his ex-lover Eos.
According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.
This is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX.
Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses weaves various myths into a fast-paced, fascinating story.
The word has also been linked to Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve human flesh ( his own son ) to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.
The Niobe narrative appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, ( Book VI ) where Latona ( Leto ) has demanded the women of Thebes to go to her temple and burn incense.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses Theseus fights against and kills Eurytus, the " fiercest of all the fierce centaurs " at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.
The word has also been linked to the original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve his own son to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.
Thrace is also mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses in the episode of Philomela, Procne, and Tereus.
In 1564 / 1567 Arthur Golding dedicated his popular translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses to the Earl.
Shakespeare also borrowed heavily from a speech by Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses in writing Prospero's renunciative speech ; nevertheless, the combination of these elements in the character of Prospero created a new interpretation of the sage magician as that of a carefully plotting hero, quite distinct from the wizard-as-advisor archetype of Merlin or Gandalf.
The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.
Marino employed him on illustrations to his poem Adone ( untraced ) and on a series of illustrations for a projected edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, took him into his household, and in 1624 enabled Poussin ( who had been detained by commissions in Lyon and Paris ) to rejoin him at Rome.
Achelous relates the bitter episode afterwards to Theseus in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
According to Ovid's pretty myth-making in the same Metamorphoses episode, the Echinades Islands were once five nymphs.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else " Your blood be poured out over your mother and sisters ..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings.
The most detailed and literary version of the story of Adonis is a late one, in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The more widely accepted version, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is that Aphrodite compelled Myrrha ( or Smyrna ) to commit incest with her father Theias, the king of Assyria.
An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.
An engraving by Bernard Picart depicting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Alpheus attempts to capture the nymph Arethusa ( mythology ) | Arethusa.
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* Galatea ( Raphael ), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
In John Keats ' loose retelling of Ovid's version of the myth of Scylla and Glaucus in Book 3 of Endymion ( 1818 ), the evil Circe does not transform Scylla into a monster but merely murders the beautiful nymph.
One of his final works was Las hilanderas ( The Spinners ), painted circa 1657, representing either the interior of the royal tapestry works or a depiction of Ovid's Fable of Arachne, depending on interpretation.
This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea ( going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's account ), the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship.
The name Nycteus signifies " of the night ", as does Nyctimene in the following variant: according to accounts by the Roman Gaius Julius Hyginus and in Ovid's Metamorphoses ( ii. 590 ), an Epopeus was a king of Lesbos.
He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus ( see Boast of Cassiopeia ), just before Phineus was turned to stone.
The only full narration of his myth is that of Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV. 274-388 ( 8 AD ), where the emphasis is on the feminine snares of the lascivious water-nymph Salmacis and her compromising of Hermaphroditus ' erstwhile budding manly strength, detailing his bashfulness and the engrafting of their bodies.
Ovid's Metamorphoses was an immediate success ( although Quintilian considered Ovid's tragedy Medea his best work ), its popularity threatening that of Virgil's Aeneid.
The myths of the Chimera can be found in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheca ( book 1 ), Homer's Iliad ( book 6 ); Hyginus ' Fabulae 57 and 151 ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( book VI 339 ; IX 648 ); and Hesiod's Theogony 319ff.
Pan and Syrinx ( Pan og Syrinx ), a vigorous nine-minute symphonic poem inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, was particularly well received at its premiere in 1911, Charles Kjerulf of Politken commenting: " For each note that was added it became more and more sublime.
Literary works also preserve some of Janus's cult epithets, such as Ovid's long passage of the Fasti devoted to Janus at the beginning of Book I ( 89-293 ), Tertullian, Augustine and Arnobius.
The bird referred to in English translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 6 ( the story of King Tereus of Thrace, who rapes his wife's sister, Philomela, and cuts out her tongue ), as lapwing is probably the Northern lapwing.
To him are also attributed two lesser works: the pious romance Guillaume d ' Angleterre ( an attribution that is no longer believed ), and Philomela, the only one of his four poems based on Ovid's Metamorphoses that has survived.
Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding ( 1565 – 67 ) and George Sandys ( 1626 ), and Chapman's translations of Homer's Iliad ( 1611 ) and Odyssey ( c. 1615 ), among the outstanding examples.
To the progress of classical scholarship he contributed by Quaestiones Catullianae ( 1837 ), and editions of Ovid's Halieutica and the Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus ( 1838 ), of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius ( 3rd ccl., 1868 ), of Horace ( 3rd ed, 1871 ) and of Virgil ( 2nd ccl., 1873 ).
* Liriope ( nymph ), the mother of Narcissus by the river-god Cephissus, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Three elegies were formerly attributed to Pedo by Scaliger ; two on the death of Maecenas ( In Obitum Maecenatis and De Verbis Maecenatis moribundi ), and one addressed to Livia to console her for the death of her son Drusus ( Consolatio ad Liviam de Morte Drusi or Epicedion Drusi, usually printed with Ovid's works ); but it is now generally agreed that they are not by Pedo.
Les Fastes, ou les usages de lannie ( 1779 ), an unsatisfactory imitation of Ovid's Fasti.
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