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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.
In the Metamorphoses she is identified with the re-metamorphosed Io. I: 747, IX: 686-773 [129] Itys: Son of Procne and Tereus. Itys was fed to Tereus by his mother in revenge for Tereus' raping her sister, Philomela, and cutting out her tongue. VI: 437-658 [130] Ixion: Father of Pirithous, and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly.
A. Abaris (Caucasian) Achelous; Achilles; Acis and Galatea; Acmon; Acoetes (Bacchic myth) Aconteus; Actaeon; Adonis; Aeacus; Aeëtes; Aegeus; Aeneas; Aesacus; Aeson ...
The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid's work, is love—be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor . Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor , an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon , who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.
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.
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]
Metamorphoses in Greek mythology; List of minor Greek mythological figures; Molion; Molossus (son of Neoptolemus) Molurus; Molus (Argive soldier) Molus (mythology) Mopsus; Mopsus (Argonaut) Mopsus (son of Manto) Myconus (mythology) Mygdon
Virgil Solis – Myrrha and Cinyras. Published in 8 A.D. the Metamorphoses of Ovid has become one of the most influential poems by writers in Latin. [15] [16] The Metamorphoses show that Ovid was more interested in questioning how laws interfered with people's lives than writing epic tales like Virgil's Aeneid or Homer's Odyssey. [15]