Metamorphoses

4 09, 2017

Ovid and the Metamorphoses – Roman literature

By |2020-04-17T05:26:01-07:00September 4th, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Ovid and the Metamorphoses – Roman literature

Part of a page from a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses (South Italy, 1000s AD, just as the Normans were conquering it) When did Ovid live? With the end of the Roman [...]

3 09, 2017

Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome

By |2019-05-23T18:41:04-07:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome

Narcissus and his pond (Third Style Roman painting from Pompeii, about 79 AD) - Echo and Narcissus Where is Echo's story from? Echo and Narcissus is a story we know [...]

3 09, 2017

Philemon and Baucis – Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By |2018-04-25T10:20:25-07:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Religion, Romans|Comments Off on Philemon and Baucis – Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Just a loaf of bread This is a story we only know because Ovid wrote it down in his poem, the Metamorphoses. It might be a traditional Greek story, but we don't know [...]

14 07, 2017

Arachne and Athena – the Arachne story in Greek mythology

By |2018-10-02T09:32:08-07:00July 14th, 2017|Greeks, Literature|8 Comments

The Arachne story: Greek women weaving at a warp-weighted loom - Athens, 500s BC Who was Arachne? Arachne was a girl who lived in Greece a long long time ago (in the story; this [...]

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