#ovid

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Andromeda

(Ovid’s Ars Amatoria version; Book I)

Tits out below cut

[hycinthrt]

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

[terpsikeraunos]

ovid, being exiled: not to be dramatic but this is just like the fall of troy

[7pleiades7]

Aurora (L'Aurore) (c. 1884) by Jules Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), signed lower left: Jules LeFebvre, oil on canvas, 81 1/8 by 42 ¾ in. (274.6 by 108.5 cm), Private Collection

[sapocipo]

I want an apology letter from the people who made me believe that Ovid was just some dumb biased Roman and therefore all his poems should be dismissed. I know it's been a while since I overcome this prejudice so I want to say this to anyone who is avoiding his poetry: PLEASE GIVE A CHANCE TO OVID'S POEMS THEY ARE ACTUALLY SO GOOD

[thhouseofblack]

Penelope hears rumours about Odysseus from the shores of Troy.

Love is a thing full of anxious fears. I imagined the Trojans’ violent attacks on you: often I grew pale at Hector’s name: if someone told of Antilochus defeated by Hector, Antilochus was the reason for my fears, if of Patroclus, dying in Achilles’s armour, I wept that tricks might fail of success.

– Penelope to Ulysses, Heroides by Ovid

commissioned from the amazing H02Piyo! 🩷

[aguavivia]

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