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Today’s episode discusses Predator (Bird) Cafes, Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE), leotards, Stephen Vincent Benét's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936), Halloween paranoia, Sarah Waters's "Fingersmith" (2002), surprise alien friends, Stingy Jack, & Riverdale.

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2021-07-13

- 11 June

"nequitiam fugio—fugientem forma reducit;
aversor morum crimina—corpus amo.
sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum,
et videor voti nescius esse mei.
aut formosa fores minus, aut minus inproba, vellem"

Ovid, Amores 3.11b.37-41

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2021-06-11

"The stars, whose ranks are shepherded by Lucifer the morning star, vanish, and he, last of all, leaves his station in the sky." Ovid's Metamorphoses 2.114-115, A.S. Kline's Version

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2021-06-07

Each day in June, I’ll be posting about something from the Legonium website. Today I commend to you a full and unaltered version of Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe, presented as a graphic novel. Enjoy! https://t.co/79BXAl13PL

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2021-06-04

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurts the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. ~~Ovid

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2021-05-13

“Come, Mother of Flowers, that we may honour thee with merry games" (Ovid)

The "Floralia" games around 1 May in ancient Rome to honour Flora, goddess of flowers, may well be one of of the origins of the medieval "Maying" traditions

🖼️ Tiepolo "Flora" 1743

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2021-04-29

Eugene Delcroix was born April 26 1798. His MEDEA gets onto the covers of hundreds of books, but I prefer his OVID IN EXILE. It's a bit too sad, though: I have never understood why Ovid complained so much about retirement on the beautiful Rumanian coast

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2021-04-26

tw// body horror, emaciation, emetophobia

Hunger, as described by Ovid

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2021-04-22

I was looking up art of Arethusa bc I just read that myth in Ovid (spoiler: men suck) and found this incredibly thicc depiction of her. Look at all her muscles!

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2021-04-15

Callisto and Artemis for part of a writing assignment in my Ovid class :3 It was nice to work on something looser and messier than usual

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2021-04-15

My digital illustrations of the Roman poets: VERGIL, OVID, CATULLUS, AND HORACE (the best one).🥰🌿

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2021-04-13

There was another famous Sibyl I bumped into once,the Sibyl of Cumae, near Naples, as consulted by Aeneas, referenced by Ovid and Petronius. Painted by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)(1581-1641), and Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel (sometimes I wonder how much M liked women😏)

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2021-04-07

Delacroix, Ovid among the Scythians, 1859. National Gallery (London)

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2021-03-20

- 20 March - and a quick bit of

"Quaere novum vatem, tenerorum mater Amorum!
raditur hic elegis ultima meta meis;
quos ego conposui, Paeligni ruris alumnus—
nec me deliciae dedecuere meae—
siquid id est, usque a proavis vetus ordinis heres,...

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2021-03-20

"The Abduction of Europa" by Noel Nicolas Coypel, 1726-1727, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

A beautiful painting that depicts the story told in "Ovid's Metamorphoses."

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2021-03-05

In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues 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)

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2021-03-04

The subject of ‘Orpheus Charming the Animals’, by Italian artist Leandro Bassano, is taken from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. Learn more about this and other featured artworks on our exhibition webpage, through the following link - https://t.co/R8ca5hA8Rv

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2021-02-22

Here are four works depicting the fall of Phaethon, the son of Helios or Phoebus Apollo and the Oceanid Clymene. In Ovid's version, a worried Phoebus reluctantly allows the inexperienced Phaethon to drive the chariot of the sun, and it doesn't end well.

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2021-02-03