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2/2 Blood of Adonis is transformed into flowers of the anemone. That crazy Ovid! As imagined withinn the frame of Venus & Adonis by Hans Bol, whose day is today.

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2020-12-17

Waifu 16 of 25 - Muginami from Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne, the third member of the Jersey Club and Ovid pilot that’s teasingly playful and sharp witted underneath a ditzy exterior.

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2020-12-17

Fall of Icarus. Here, everybody stops to watch -“these must be Gods!”- as Ovid says. Not like Bruegel’s revision! By Hans Bol, born OTD in 1534.

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2020-12-17

Illustrations of Ovid's repulsive tale of Pygmalion and his ideal woman statue are so Awkward!
and rightly so

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2020-12-10

A requested piece of my original character Ovid :0
He's essentially a God being so, why not some kinda spacey stuff.

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2020-10-15

did this thing for the puppet history halloween contest... this is cosmo!
he's based off of the celestial goddess in greek mythology, astraea. her name translated to "star maiden". according to ovid, she left earth and ascended to heaven to become the constellation known as virgo

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2020-10-04

'Echo & Narcissus' (& studies) (1903 Walker Art Gall) for In Ovid's Metamorphosis Echo perishes for Narcissus who is then caused to fall in love with his own reflection as punishment by the Goddess Nemesis. A Narcissus flower grows on the spot where he dies.

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2020-09-30

This portrait of Ovid made by one of my undergrads as a thank you for last year has made my day.

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2020-09-26

(Threading this right) Here is Cadmus, my super short comic adapted from Metamorphoses (Ovid, Humphries) that I had in 2015 at my very first TCAF. [1/5]

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2020-09-24

In 'Circe Invidosa'' the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues depicting her jealousy. In a 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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2020-09-24

In dreams were personified as part of the "tribe of Dreams" (φῦλον Ὀνείρων), a group of unnamed offspring of Nyx. Morpheus and his brothers came later, from the Roman poet Ovid, and were members of the "Somnia", children of Somnus.

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2020-09-14

Morpheus of Ovid; sink deeper

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2020-09-04

Nec vincere possis flumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates

Ovidius

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but you'll never be able to master rivers if you swim against the tide.

Ovid

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2020-08-07

Of the Four Winds: each had his home and yet
So wildly the Brothers quarrel, even now
The world is almost torn in a war of winds.—Ovid, The Metamorphoses
—
Ludolf Backhuysen:
“Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast” (1667)

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2020-08-04

- 29 July

"ipsa quoque interius cum duro lingua palato
congelat, et venae desistunt posse moveri;
nec flecti cervix nec bracchia reddere motus
nec pes ire potest; intra quoque viscera saxum est.
flet tamen..."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.306-310

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2020-07-29

Your Daily Altar of Eros

Illustrations by Jean A. Mercier for a 1946 French edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses

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2020-07-09

Ovid Among The Scythians by Eugène Delacroix, oil on panel 1862.

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2020-07-04

Peter Paul Rubens, “Hunt of the Calydonian Boar" (c.1611-12) In a scene from Metamorphosis of Ovid, warrior-prince Meleager delivers fatal thrust to wild beast with vigor that alludes to Rubens’ wielding of brush in intense Baroque style.
https://t.co/tdemnLpokw

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2020-06-29

Perseus and Andromeda (1720) by Hendrick Jacob Hoet (c. 1693–1733) The Bowes Museum. Andromeda is shackled to the rocks - Perseus rides to the rescue on the winged horse, Pegasus.

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2020-06-19

Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes

"All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil"

-Ovid, Tristia II ("Sorrows")

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2020-05-29