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The name of the deified form of Romulus. XIV: 828-863 [213] Romulus: The founder of Rome. Son of Ilia and Mars. He took the name Quirinus upon his deification. XIV: 799–846, XV: 560 [214] Saturnus: Roman god of agriculture and harvest. Brother and husband of Ops and father of Jupiter and his siblings.
Throughout history, the Metamorphoses has been used not only as a compendium of information on Ancient Greek and Roman lore, but also as a vehicle for allegorical exposition, exegesis, commentaries and adaptations. True enough, in the medieval West, Ovid's work was the principal conduit of Greek myths.
A. Abaris (Caucasian) Achelous; Achilles; Acis and Galatea; Acmon; Acoetes (Bacchic myth) Aconteus; Actaeon; Adonis; Aeacus; Aeëtes; Aegeus; Aeneas; Aesacus; Aeson ...
Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology (1 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Metamorphoses in Greek mythology" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants, and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep that night. They had been rejected by all, "so wicked were the people of that land", when at last they came to Baucis and Philemon's simple rustic cottage.
The three brothers' names are found nowhere earlier than Ovid, and are perhaps Ovidian inventions. [9] Tripp calls these three figures "literary, not mythical concepts". [10] However, Griffin suggests that this division of dream forms between Morpheus and his brothers, possibly including their names, may have been of Hellenistic origin. [11]