Search results for "Metamorphoses (poem)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- comes from Ovid's autobiographical poem, the Tristia. Ovid was born ... to undertake more ambitious poems: the Metamorphoses and the Fasti ("Calendar ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- as opposed to maze). Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus ... Among these anecdotes, one told in Ovid's Metamorphoses (VIII: ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- gods, and slain by Athena. According to Ovid (Metamorphoses), Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and this was due to Athena (Roman Minerva) cursing ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- an English translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. At age fourteen she ... that she witnessed, Wheatley wrote the poem "America." ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- is an allegorical commentary on an Orphic poem in hexameters, a theogony ... in John Warden's Orpheus: the metamorphoses of a myth. Toronto: University ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- 32), and the several that occur in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Late Antiquity, Martianus Capella organized all the information a fifth-century upper ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- concert hall, is probably the Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria ... *Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber *Mathis der Maler (symphony ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- of meanings residing in the words of a poem or novel, nor the tissue of ... *Metamorphoses of the Circle (1966) *Trois essais de mythologie romantique ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- is relayed in the Völundarkviða, a poem in the Poetic Edda. He is ... Finally, this divine attribution makes a certain sense of the poem ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- the French title Mirour de l'Omme, a poem of just under 30,000 lines ... that occurred during the composition of the poem. Gower strongly takes the ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- using this technique is possibly Ovid's Metamorphoses in ancient Rome. Sir Thomas Browne's discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) with its ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- Martianus Capella and Ovid's Metamorphoses,, and other sermons and theological treatises. Only two of his works have been printed: "De ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- Prometheus, in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is credited with the creation ... ms/prometheus.html Prometheus] - A poem by Byron * [http://www.pantheon ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- depicting this period has survived in a poem by Callimachus (c. 305 B.C ... In a similar manner, Ovid's Metamorphoses describes the death ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- episode described in Ovid's Metamorphoses: the love of Polyphemus ... of Pyramus and Thisbe) (1618) is a complex poem that mocks gossiping and avaricious ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
- and greatest warrior of Homer's epic poem Iliad, which takes for its ... Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the first century ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The voluptuous series was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga of Mantua, probably to decorate ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- The term narcissism comes from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses ... edu/trans/Metamorph3.htm#476975714 Metamorphoses Book III] Retrieved November ...31 KB (4,187 words) - 17:00, 16 November 2023
- fountain tells a story taken from Ovid's poem Metamorphoses and served—and still serves—as an allegory of the Fronde. Next, is the Royal Avenue ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations ... The oldest surviving poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the third ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
