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Myrrha and appears
Incest appears in the commonly accepted version of the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha has sex with her father Cinyras during a festival, disguised as a prostitute.
" Shakespeare makes a subtle reference to Myrrha later when Venus picks a flower: " She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears, Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears.

Myrrha and Divine
In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
Myrrha in Hell ( Gustave Doré, illustration for Dante's Divine Comedy )
In 1857 French engraver Gustave Doré made a series of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, the depiction of Myrrha showing her in the eighth circle of Hell.
In 1984, artist Mel Chin created a sculpture based on Doré's illustration of Myrrha for the Divine Comedy.

Myrrha and poem
Cinna's literary fame was established by his magnum opus Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem focused on the incestuous love of Smyrna ( or Myrrha ) for her father Cinyras, treated after the erudite and allusive manner of the Alexandrian poets.

Myrrha and by
According to Ovid, Cinyras ' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father ( in retribution for her mother Cenchreis ' hybris ), slept with him, became pregnant, and asked the gods to change her into something other than human ; she became a tree from whose bark myrrh drips.
A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, done by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a critique of the society of that day linking Myrrha to Mary II and Cinyras to James II.
In the play Sardanapalus by Byron, a character named Myrrha appeared, whom critics interpreted as a symbol of Byron's dream of romantic love.
The myth of Myrrha was one of 24 tales retold in Tales from Ovid by English poet Ted Hughes.
The myth of Myrrha and Cinyras is sung by Orpheus in the tenth book of Metamorphoses after he has told the myth of Pygmalion and before he turns to the tale of Venus and Adonis.
As the myth of Myrrha is also the longest tale sung by Orpheus ( 205 lines ) and the only story that corresponds to his announced theme of girls who are punished for their madness from forbidden desire, it is considered the centerpiece of the song.
While fitting the noose around her neck, Myrrha was discovered by her nurse who snatched the rope from her.
One of the earliest recordings of a play inspired by the myth of Myrrha is in the Antiquities of the Jews, written in 93 A. D. by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.
The tragedy Mirra by Vittorio Alfieri ( written in 1786 ) is inspired by the story of Myrrha.
The novella Mathilda, written by Mary Shelley in 1820, contains similarities to the myth and mentions Myrrha.
In 1997 the myth of Myrrha and Cinyras was one of 24 tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses that were retold by English poet Ted Hughes in his poetical work Tales from Ovid.
In 1997 American poet Frank Bidart wrote Desire, which was another retelling of the myth of Myrrha as it was presented in the Metamorphoses by Ovid.
Reading the translation of the myth of Myrrha by Dryden as a comment on the political scene, states Lee, is partly justified by the characterization done by the historian Julian Hoppit on the events of the revolution of 1688:
In music, Myrrha was the subject of an 1876 band piece by John Phillip Sousa, Myrrha Gavotte and in 1901, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet each wrote cantatas titled Myrrha.
The libretto drew on the legend of Myrrha while the music was inspired by Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1902 ) as well as Richard Strauss ' Elektra ( 1909 ).

Myrrha and Dante
Dante had already shown his familiarity with the myth of Myrrha in a prior letter to Emperor Henry VII, which he wrote on 17 April 1311.

Myrrha and where
Although the tale of Adonis has Semitic roots, it is uncertain from where the myth of Myrrha emerged, though it was likely from Cyprus.
Its name entered the English language from the Hebrew Bible, where it is called mor, מור, and later as a Semitic loanword was used in the Greek myth of Myrrha, and later in the Septuagint ; in the Greek language, the related word μύρον became a general term for perfume.

Myrrha and sees
When Myrrha craves and achieves her father's ( Cinyras ') bed, Lee sees a parallel to Mary's ascending James ' throne: both daughters incestuously occupied the place which belonged to their fathers.

Myrrha and her
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.
The myth details the incestuous relationship between Myrrha and her father, Cinyras.
Myrrha falls in love with her father and tricks him into sexual intercourse.
After discovering her identity, Cinyras draws his sword and pursues Myrrha.
The myth of Myrrha is closely linked to that of her son, Adonis, which has been easier to trace.
It is likely that lack of clarity concerning whether Myrrha was called Smyrna, and who her father was, originated in Cyprus before the Greeks first encountered the myth.
Myrrha, who could have her choice of men from far and wide, felt attracted to her father.
Over several verses, Ovid depicts the inner struggle Myrrha faces between her sexual desire for her father and the social sanctions and shame she would face for sleeping with him.
One night the household was asleep, Myrrha found herself sleepless due to the passion she felt for her father.
Distraught that she had been discovered, Myrrha confided her forbidden love to the nurse.
Finally the nurse agreed to help Myrrha get into her father's bed if she promised that she would not try to kill herself again.
Upon bringing in a lamp, and seeing his crime, the king drew his sword and attempted to kill her on the spot, but Myrrha fled and escaped, saved because the darkness of the night hid her from sight.
Though Myrrha abandoned her human feelings when she was transformed, she still mourns her tragic fate and her tears, being the drops oozing from the tree's bark, are today known as myrrh.

Myrrha and being
At a more abstract level Myrrha is the desire for freedom driving those who feel trapped or bound, as well as being the incarnation of Byron's dream of romantic love.
The work received critical acclaim winning the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award 1997 and being adapted to the stage in 1999, starring Sirine Saba as Myrrha.
The translation of the myth of Myrrha as it appeared in Ovid's Metamorphoses is suggested as being a critique of the political settlement that followed the Glorious Revolution.
Dryden turned to translation and infused these translations with political satire in response-the myth of Myrrha being one of these translations.

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