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Showing posts with label Ovid. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ovid. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2025

one of the daftest bits of ancient mythology concerns the death of orpheus ... killed and dismembered by the MAENADS, some French 19thC painters show his head falling into a river, and some show it being retrieved by ??? i'm not sure who ??? ... GUSTAVE MOREAU painted a lady treasuring the head of Orpheus ... but why are there two tortoises in the bottom corner ?

OVID tell this story differently ... https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses11.html

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Ovid's Metamorphoses ... third edition, ripped-off from Tonson ... very poorly illustrated and printed in Ireland in 1727 ... here are the frontispiece pages with their pictorial dedications to a series of high-ranking ladies ... of Volume One, Books One to Seven ... and of Volume Two, Books Eight to Fifteen ... it seems only properly respectful to include such portraits of the ladies as will bring them to life ... BUT THEN, LATER ... mercy me ! ... I had failed to realize i was looking at the cheap rip-off pirate edition ... the original publisher was Jacob Tonson in London ... his printers and engravers and artists did much finer work, as you will see ...

VOLUME ONE https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos01ovid/mode/2up?view=theater this is the crude rip-off version printed in Dublin .....

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