Ovid metamorphoses

Read 2,845 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamo…

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Spring. Landscape with two children, a boy and a girl, studying a bird's nest with chicks, the girl holds a bouquet of flowers and a small basket, a kid goat and a young deer in foreground; anonymous copy after Jan Saenredam who engraved after Hendrik Goltzius Engraving

A basic level guide to some of the best known and loved works of prose, poetry and drama from ancient Greece ✅ Metamorphoses by Ovid

8 articoli pubblicati da CantervilleGhost durante October 2012

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(My apologies for posting this a couple days late. I'm deep in editorial revisions of my current novel Mother of Souls and am scrambling to keep up with my blogging schedule.) We sometimes think of Greek myth as representing an ancient pre-Christian religious tradition, but many of the most elaborate and familiar sources for these...

This print, the third in the series, depicts Apollo's vain pursuit. The verses at the bottom of the engraving describe, in a paraphrase of Ovid (Metamorphoses 1.527-30), how the wind further kindled Apollo's longing by lifting Daphne's garments to reveal her lovely limbs