Tag: Greek Mythology
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Echo and Narcissus
Narcissus and Echo (45–79 AD), wall painting from Pompeii Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should…
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Tiresias
Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in…
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Hercules and Dejanira.
Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in…
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Hades: The Mythological Underworld
Cerberus who guarded Hades To tell the story of the beginning of the universe, the time of Chaos (literally ‘Yawning Gap’ – the infinite space between heaven and earth), and the gods that followed it in Greek mythology, is no straightforward affair. There are a multitude of characters, all with different roles to play, but…
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Medusa Misunderstood
Luciano Garbati, Medusa holding the head of Persues, 2008 To some, the Greek myth of Medusa is a nightmarish tale, one of madness, a demonic monster with snakes for hair and a glance that has a petrifying power, while others such as the Roman poet Ovid, have interpreted her as a wronged woman, a symbol…
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