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Your search for: ovid AND myths


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Books on: ovid myths

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Journal Articles on: ovid myths

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Magazine Articles on: ovid myths

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Newspaper Articles on: ovid myths

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    An Ovid for Our Time: Ted Hughes' Take on the Roman Epic
    Newspaper article by Kevin Driscoll; The Washington Times, December 28, 1997
    Subjects: 
    Hughes, Ted
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...epic form, Mr. Slavitt writes, Ovid "transformed the epic, playing...offers a compendium of popular myths told with a twist. That Ovid succeeded in melding the disparate...are all heavily in his debt. Ovid is still very much with us today...
     
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    TEN OF THE GREATEST; Historian, Author and Fellow of New College, Oxford; CLASSICAL MYTHS
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Historians, Universities and colleges
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Fellow of New College, Oxford; CLASSICAL MYTHS. Byline: by ROBIN LANE FOX 1 OEDIPUS...image, reflected in a pool. The poet Ovid says he was being punished for his rejection...as a hyacinth. This spring the Greek myths of Narcissus and Hyacinthus are still...the volcano roared, Typhon seemed no myth to me.
     
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    Diving into Mythology Lake Zurich High Set to Perform a Water-Filled 'Metamorphoses'
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 8, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...amazing opportunity." "Metamorphoses" is made up of nine poems that Ovid wrote based on Greek myths that Mary Zimmerman later tied together into one show. "These myths and what they have to say are still contemporary today," he said. Junior...
     
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    Ancient Stories Sad, Funny, Sexy, Engaging
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 4, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...gorgeously eerie Latin hymns. What we have here is a brilliant, artful stage adaptation of 10 myths and stories collected into a long poem by Ovid about 2000 years ago. About 10 years ago, director-playwright Mary Zimmerman worked with actors...
     
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    Last Chance for Titian
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 7, 2008
    Subjects: 
    Painters, Painters (Artists)
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Metamorphoses, the ancient Romans compendium of myths in which men and women, punished or rewarded...1986); I owe both poets an apology. Ovid gave us the names of the nymphs and their...take part in the event. But according to Ovid she had no need to and did not. Titian...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ovid myths

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    Ovid
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...he later died. The poems of Ovid fall into three groups erotic...hexameters, it is a collection of myths concerned with miraculous transformations...somewhat abated poetic power. Ovid wrote poetry to give pleasure...influence in European literature, Ovid was also a primary source of...
     
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    Renaissance
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...series of letters to classical figures (e.g., Cicero and Ovid). Giovanni Boccaccio , a follower of Petrarch, wrote works...genealogy of the gods of the gentiles, a collection of classical myths, and the Decameron, a book of 100 stories told by Italian...
     
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    Hesiod
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...entrenched in the Western imagination and was expanded upon by Ovid. Also ascribed to him are the Theogony, a genealogy of the...Homeric school. Homer and Hesiod codified and preserved the myths of many of the Greek gods of the classical pantheon. See translations...
     

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