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From Freud and Ovid to the exoticism of the pre-apocalyptic landscape, writer Meehan Crist comes to on Thursday to discuss grief and loss in our rapidly changing world: https://t.co/zCK1TvRmU2

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2018-07-24

A wonderful and mesmerising painting by Roelandt Savery about the story of Orpheus, told by Ovid. Orpheus had the power to enchant with his music not only all living creatures, but also the trees and the rocks. Be enchanted by the music in Room 17: https://t.co/MWZIkBoYjD

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2018-06-13

Metamorphoses

Jean-Baptiste Nattier
Romulus Being taken
Up to Olympus by Mars
c 1700
Muzeum Kolekcji im. Jana Pawła II,
Warsaw
Poland

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2018-04-01

"Pleasure must never be hurried in love." Metamorphoses

Mars and Venus, from the House of Mars and Venus, Ruins

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2018-03-21

But on the ravish’d virgin vengeance takes,
Her shining hair is chang’d to hissing snakes.
These in her Aegis Pallas joys to bear,
The hissing snakes her foes more sure ensnare,
Than they did lovers once, when shining hair. 🐍

Metamorphoses, Book IV — Ovid

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2018-03-20

The Great Flood may not be a myth. The flood appears in ancient Sumerian, in the Hindu Matsya Purana, in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Bible & with ancient Greeks w/ Zeus' flooding of the world in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Scientists have found evidence in the Black Sea.

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2018-02-04

More from my deer dance series ....developed from the wonderful Ovid poem Actaeon ...
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2017-11-03

Today's is Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of my favorite books in the collection! View more engravings here: https://t.co/6bDevhVYrw

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2017-07-18

[Revamped character, Ovid M. Sandoval] (3/3)
Find the truth between the lies. (cv. Ryan Hoyle)

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2017-07-17

Death & renewal: the whole cycle of life is contained in Poussin's 1631 'Kingdom of Flora' where characters from Ovid are reborn as flowers

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2017-05-19

Ovid among the Scythians

Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris)
Date: 1862

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2017-02-16

Part of our Ovid’s Metamorphoses trail, this bronze shows Hercules Overcoming Achelous in the Form of a Bull

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2017-02-12

"...and out the flowers fell..." - from Ovid's account of the rape of Persephone.

(Quote from Alex Danchev's Cezanne biography.)

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2017-01-17

New work for magazine, "I've Got Ovid" by Jane Alison https://t.co/RQLc2sQd2Q

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2016-08-04

Elmer Watchel
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
Ovid

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2016-04-11

Delacroix "Ovid among the Scythians" sold 5 March 1863 for Fr1000. Now in https://t.co/PuA0CMYCg2

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2016-03-05

“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” (Ovid)

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2015-10-12

redrew/revamped an old character: Ovid. some snake dude, gorgon?

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2014-12-03