Metamorphoses
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The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Jul
Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497
Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.
A woodcut from Virgil Solis, illustrating the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, the final event of the poem (XV.745–850)
A depiction of the story of Pygmalion, Pygmalion adoring his statue by Jean Raoux (1717)
Myrrha
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Myrrha, also known as Smyrna, is the mother of Adonis in Greek mythology. She was transformed into a myrrh tree after having coitus with her father, and gave birth — in tree form — to Adonis. Although
Roman fresco of Myrrha from a villa at Tor Marancia, Rome.
A possible route for the Myrrha myth's spread: the red is certain, the orange uncertain.
Virgil Solis – Myrrha and Cinyras
Myrrha's flight from her father