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Ovid named three of the sons of Somnus: Morpheus, who appears in human guise, Icelos or Phobetor, who appears as beasts, and Phantasos, who appears as inanimate objects. #MythologyMonday {Somnus and Mors, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, by John William Waterhouse}
2/2 Blood of Adonis is transformed into flowers of the anemone. That crazy Ovid! As imagined within the frame of Venus & Adonis by Hans Bol, whose day is today.
Veronese, Perseus & Andromeda. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes.'When Perseus her beheld as marble he would deem her, but the breeze moved in her hair, & from her streaming eyes the warm tears fell. Her beauty so amazed his heart, unconscious captive of her charms
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Cadmus adapts the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is about the first King of Thebes.
https://t.co/u2VB4G62xL
Phantasos ('Fantasy') is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep)
He appeared in dreams in the form of inanimate objects, putting on "deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, all lifeless things.
'Ovid's Metamorphoses'
#egorodriguez
#illustrati… https://t.co/2mFVPP9j2d
'Echo and Narcissus' by John William Waterhouse (1903) illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
#SwampSunday #preraphaelite
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Abstract art. Full moon and beautiful women. I saw in Ovid NewYork tonight ❤️❤️❤️
The destroyer of🅱️ovid, Delta the witch doctor! Created by @LandyRS!
As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
Ovid
Metamorphoses
#ClassicLitSaturday
For #NationalPoetryDay today, we wanted to share this extraordinary piece by French painter #FrançoisLemoyne.
Dated 1723, the work depicts #PerseusAndAndromeda, and is directly inspired by the mythology and stories of the Roman poet, Ovid.
Find out more: https://t.co/vEXPfDXjQA
"Her last word spoken was, “Farewell!” which he could barely hear, and with no further sound she fell from him again to Hades.—"
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Bk. 10. Orpheus and Eurydice
🖼️ @Iren_Horrors
#MythologyMonday #31DaysOfHalloween
In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens depicting jealousy.
In this scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨Waterhouse) #colour #Folklorethursday
🍃 her hair grows into foliage, her arms into branches,
her foot, just now so swift, clings by sluggish roots,
her face has the top of a tree: a single splendor remains in her.
—Ovid
Metamorphoses
Apollo and Daphne
🎨Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)
#WyrdWednesday ✨
#WyrdWednesday Ovid's Metamorphoses is filled with the transformation of nymphs, principally their non-consensual metamorphoses following assault. Daphne is "saved" from Apollo by being turned into a laurel tree. Hera punishes Callisto by turning her into a bear. 1/4
Ovid Demaris excelled with stories about organized crime. But how does he perform when writing a 1959 novel about a psychopathic gay man terrorizing a California city with a knife? Find out at https://t.co/Sd1wfC2N7A.
#FairyTaleTuesday
According to the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid, the “Sirenum Scopuli” were three small rocky islands where the #sirens, dangerous #sea #maidens of Greek #mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths with their bewitching singing.
🎨Gustav Wertheimer