Monday, November 8, 2010

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI

ORPHEUS:       The poet is attacked by a frenzy of women and is torn from limb to limb but bitter sweetly meets his love in the end.
THE BACCHANTES:        The God is saddened by Orpheus' death so turns the followers who killed him into oak trees.
MIDAS:     The foolish king asks for gold but then learns his lesson only to witness a lyre contest and be cursed with the ears of an ass.
http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/kunst/nicolas_poussin/midas_und_bacchus-1.jpgTROY:     An untruthful king pays for not following through with paying some in-disguise Gods.
PELEUS & THETIS:       Jove is warned to not sleep with the Goddess so he gives the task to Peleus, his grandson, who must tie the girl down to win her as a bride; how romantic.
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Images/PeleusThetisWtewael.jpgCEYX:       Peleus accidentally kills his own brother and seeks refuge in Ceyx's city.
DAEDALION:       Ceyx's own brother is a hawk who leaped to kill himself after his foolish daughter's downfall.
THE WOLF:      Revenge gave birth to a ravage wolf who was only stopped by Thetis' mercy for her husband.
CEYX & ALCYONE:      The king goes on a voyage and never comes back but both are turned to birds so as to still be together.
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg
AESACUS:    Hector's brother is at fault for the death of his lover so he tries to die as well only to be turned into a bird who forever dives to feel death.

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