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#LatinForTheDay - 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
#MythologyMonday
I always think poor #Arachne had a bit of a rough deal after challenging #Athena to a weaving contest .... because her weaving was flawless she incurred the goddess' wrath & took her own life, then being transformed into a spider.
#Ovid #Metamorphoses #Spiders
Your Daily Altar of Eros
Illustrations by Jean A. Mercier for a 1946 French edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses
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. #Ovid #Metamorphoses #Mythology
Perseus and Andromeda (1720) by Hendrick Jacob Hoet (c. 1693–1733) The Bowes Museum. Andromeda is shackled to the rocks, threatened by the monster. Perseus approaches on Pegasus, the winged divine horse. Read all about it in Ovid's Metamorphoses. #MythologyMonday #Dragon
#GothicSpring Aconitum (Wolf's-bane/Devil's Helmet) is a genus of 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. In his poem 'Metamorphoses', Ovid tells how the herb comes from the mouth of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades.
Horned Io, carried into the presence of Isis and Harpocrates by the god of the Nile. Io was one of Zeus’ many lovers, turned into a heifer by Hera. The story may have inspired Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, in which the hero’s devotion to Isis rescues him from his donkey form. Pompeii
Nouvelle fournée de critiques en vrac: le dernier tome de la très sympathique série steampunk Les Metamorphoses 1858 @Ferret_Sylvain @editions_Soleil, le dernier Conan @GlenatBD et le dernier Harmony @EditionsDupuis !https://t.co/pIu1tCZlWn. Suivez-vous ces séries?
"Romeo and Juliet" borrows from the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and "The Ephesiaca of Xenophon and Ephesus", right down to the parental rivalry, the belief that one of the lovers is dead, and the use of a sleep potion
#FolkloreThursday #Love #Romance
"...he assumed the semblance of a bull and mingled with the bullocks in the groves, his color white as virgin snow..."-Ovid, Metamorphoses Book II
Zeus, in the guise of a bull, abducts Europa and flees to Crete.
Art by Alexander Rothaug (1870-1946).
Pyramus and Thisbe were a pair of ill-fated lovers. The story is part of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Because of a family feud they were forbidden to wed or to see each other, so they whispered through a crack in the wall.
#MythologyMonday #mythology #folklore #myths
In the "Odyssey" of Homer Scylla is a scary monster, that kills sailors. In Ovids "Metamorphoses" however Scylla is a nymph and in love with the sea god Glaukos. Because of jealousy the sorceress Circe transforms her into a monster. #MythologyMonday #mythology #folklore
Arachne challenged Athena's weaving skill & defeated her w/ a stunning work showing the gods' misadventures among humans. Outraged, Athena destroyed her work, attacked her, & turned her into a spider.
@MythologyMonday #mythologymonday #metamorphoses
Art: Alexandra Huntington
Sadly the #rebeccahorn exhibition closed on Sunday. But you can still visit her works in the exhibition #theatreofmetamorphoses @PompidouMetz as well as in the Tanks @Tate modern in #London, both having wonderful displays. #tatemodern #centrepompidoumetz #womenartists
This week's staff pick comes from Sarah "'Metamorphoses' is a book of caricature drawings by a Dutch scientist, Marianne van Herwerden (1874-1934). What I love about this book is the blending of art and science, and I am also a huge fan of anthropomorphism in art."
Painting at Bedtime.
Echo and Narcissus.
John William Waterhouse.
From Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', the story of the nymph Echo and Narcissus is well known. She was in love with him but he was only in love with his own reflection. She faded to an echo and he turned into a flower.