Ovid portrays Pygmalion as the literary twin of Orpheus. Through the story of Pygmalion, he foreshadows Orpheus's reunion with Eurydice. He draws parallels ...

21 июн. 2022 г. · Ovid follows up the story of Iphis and Ianthe's complicated yet ultimately successful marriage with a story of a marriage that experiences ...

Orpheus and Eurydice are married, but moments later she is bitten by a snake and dies. Orpheus descends to Hades, where he begs Pluto and Persephone to allow ...

Orpheus and Eurydice make their way to the upper world. Just when they are almost home free, however, Orpheus looks back – he wants to make sure his wife is ...

Book 10 Summary: “Myrrha”. The girl Myrrha falls in love with her own father, Cinyras, and tricks him into having sex with her. When he discovers this, ...

21 июн. 2022 г. · Venus tells Adonis about Atalanta, a girl who could run faster than any man. Atalanta was very beautiful, and all the men wanted to marry ...

14 окт. 2013 г. · In Book 10 Ovid throws us with great glee into a sequence of tales of doom and misery in marriage via Hymen (the god of marriage ceremonies), ...

13 сент. 2024 г. · Ovid tells us that Nessus the Centaur loses more than just a horn for Deianira. When Hercules and his bride, newly wedded, are on their way to ...

Do not be foolish, beware of endangering me, and do not provoke the creatures nature has armed, lest your glory is to my great cost. Neither youth nor beauty, ...

Overcome with grief, Orpheus travels to the Underworld to bring her back to life. He convinces Hades and Persephone to let Eurydice go, but her release comes ...