#metamorphoses

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[hycinthrt]

if i could give my life for yours, or die with you

[adriles]

From my will: No funeral. Instead host a debate between some of the guys i know for ownership of my stuff, sowing hatred and distrust between them. as a bit

[cuties-in-codices]

the transformation of daphne

miniature from a copy of ovid's metamorphoses (middle french translation by clément marot). france, after 1531

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 117, fol. 28v

[aguavivia]

John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth | John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa

[classicslesbianopinions]

"average greek myth involves a god turning someone into something else" factoid actualy just statistical error. average greek myth involves 0 gods turning someone into something else. metamorphoses ovid, who lives in exile & writes over 10,000 transformation myths a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[ilions-end]

another highlight of the odysseus-ajax debate in metamorphoses is when ajax argues that since for so many of odysseus' greatest war feats he had diomedes there to do the grunt work (rhesus, the palladion), diomedes has a greater claim on achilles' kit than odysseus does. and odysseus answers,

"Ajax, who among the Greeks has praise for you and seeks your company? But Diomedes has joined his cause with mine in all his actions; I have his approval, and he can always count on his Ulysses– and that is something, to be singled out, chosen from all the Greeks by Diomedes!"

basically "well if having the HONOUR of being diomedes' bestie is a crime then LLLLLOCK ME UP, mister friendless!!"

[7pleiades7]

The Death of Icarus (19th century), (detail), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 44" x 31.5", Private Collection