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The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."
Housman continued pursuing classical studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.
This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.
8. 183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder ’ s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus " Essay on Brueghel's visualisation of Ovid.
Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.
They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".
Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.
" Ovid may have based this on a poem by Sappho no longer extant.
On January 1, the Fasti Praenestini records the festivals of Aesculapius and Vediove on the Island, while in the Fasti Ovid speaks of Jupiter and his grandson.
Ovid gives a vivid description of the rural rite at a boundary of fields of neighbouring peasants on February 23 ( the day of the Terminalia.
Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.
In his poem on the Roman calendar, Ovid ( d. 17 CE ) identifies this goddess with Semele:
They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.
After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus, emotionally affected, for just a moment, stops his eternal task and sits on his rock, the Latin wording being inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo (" you sat upon your rock, Sisyphus ").
Hyginus, whose story on the whole agrees with that of Ovid, and all the other writers who mention this adventure of Bacchus, call the crew of the ship Tyrrhenian pirates and derive the name of the Tyrrhenian Sea from them.
Sometimes he hung garlands on her doorpost wet with his tears, and lay with his soft flank on the hard threshold, complaining at the pitiless bolts barring the way .” According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.
In classical music Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.
Ovid touches upon the theme of Marsyas twice, very briefly telling the tale in Metamorphoses vi. 383-400, where he concentrates on the tears shed into the river Marsyas, and making an allusion in Fasti, vi. 649-710, where Ovid's primary focus is on the aulos and the roles of flute-players rather than Marsyas, whose name is not actually mentioned.
In music, the German composer Richard Strauss composed a one-act opera about the legend based on accounts by both Ovid and Euripides.

Ovid and other
Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid.
He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers.
According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.
Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.
Besides Ovid, other Roman writers also treated lycanthropy.
On these two sources depend other ancient authorities, such as Ovid, Servius, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, patristic texts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.
Ovid and Hyginus both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera ( and Zeus's resulting anger ) as a reason for it.
Ovid includes an imagined reproachful letter from Oenone to Paris in his collection Heroides, a text that has been extended by a number of spurious post-Ovidian interpolations, which include a rape of Oenone by Apollo that is nowhere confirmed in other sources.
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.
First then does Ovid begin telling the story describing Myrrha, her father and their relationship, which Doll compares to the mating of Cupid and Psyche: here the lovemaking occurs in complete darkness and only the initiator ( Cupid ) knows the identity of the other as well.
Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.
Ovid and other writers have claimed ( either fancifully or mistakenly ) that the etymology of her name was " lover of song " derived from the Greek and instead of ).
According to Ovid, Mestra married the thief Autolycus, though other sources named his wife differently.
Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero ( mostly extant ), Ovid ( only two short fragments remain ), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus ( extant, with scholia ), and the less-famous Avienus ( extant ).
The works of Nicander were praised by Cicero ( De oratore, i. 16 ), imitated by Ovid and Lucan, and frequently quoted by Pliny and other writers.
In Las Hilanderas, probably painted the year after Las Meninas, two different scenes from Ovid are shown: one in contemporary dress in the foreground, and the other partly in antique dress, played before a tapestry on the back wall of a room behind the first.
He edited the Ibis of Ovid, the Aetna of the younger Lucilius, and contributed to the Anecdota Oxoniensia various unedited Bodleian and other manuscripts.
When adjacent towns were created from Ovid and placed in other counties, Ovid was seen as being too far from the county center, and Waterloo became the county seat.
Ovid was, at times, on the south border of Seneca County as some of the other county towns were assigned to adjacent counties.
Among the models favoured by the Pléiade were Pindar, Anacreon, Alcaeus and other poets of the Greek Anthology, as well as Virgil, Horace and Ovid.
The National Library of Medicine leases the MEDLINE information to a number of private vendors such as Ovid, Dialog, EBSCO, Knowledge Finder and many other commercial, non-commercial, and academic providers.
In 1598, he published The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres, a book of poetry in imitation of, on the one hand, Ovid, and, on the other, the Satires of Juvenal.

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