#ovid's metamorphoses

[hycinthrt]

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

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

You’ve pulled The Metamorphosis!

A card in the Trans Girl Trading Card Collection!

One night before falling into restless dreams I imagined myself transformed in my bed into a girl. One morning, years later, I woke up and realized that my wish had come true, little by little.

Special thanks to @sadcoldcoffee and @unholytgirl for starting this super fun trading-card trend!

[timecrayon]

"Dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband (what, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?)"

Dead Boy Detectives (2024) / Hadestown (2016) / Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) / Kaos (2024) / Talk - Hozier / Metamorpheses - Ovid

[aguavivia]

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

[reveuseinflorence]

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

- Ovid, Metamorphoses

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

reading Metamorphoses by Ovid

[dykeganseythethird]

to die in your lovers arms

bluesey as françois gérard’s orpheus tries to hold on to eurydice, ca. 1791

[bugwolfsstuff]

Does Cupid shooting Apollo with a love arrow and Daphne with a hate arrow in the myth (that i'm displeased to find out is Ovid's version) not make Apollo also kinda a victim too?

one shaft that rouses love and one that routs it. The first gleams bright with piercing point of gold; the other, cull and blunt is tipped with lead. This one he lodged in Nympha Peneis' [Daphne's] heart; the first he shot to pierce Apollo to the marrow. At once he loves; she flies the name of love, delighting in the forest's depths, and trophies of the chase, a Nympha to vie with heaven's virgin huntress Phoebe [Artemis];

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And Venus' [Aphrodite's] son [Eros] replied : ‘Your bow, Phoebus, may vanquish all, but mine shall vanquish you. As every creature yields to power divine, so likewise shall your glory yield to mine.’

—Ovid, Metamorphoses 

Like...does that not mean Cupid's arrows overide all other feelings and therefore make Apollo an unwilling participant here?

Not to say Daphne also wasnt a victim, she definetly was but it seems it was non-consensual for both parties?

[lionofchaeronea]

Jupiter and Mercury at the House of Philemon and Baucis, workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1620-25

[moon-kissed-corner]

The painting Orpheus and Eurydice, by George Frederic Watts.

Lines from the song Talk, by Hozier, and extract from Orpheus and Eurydice, from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

[hycinthrt]

you are laughing, his dying head sunk into his shoulder like a broken flower and you are laughing

[dreamconsumer]

Icarus. Unknown artist.

[mythologypaintings]

Pygmalion and his Statue

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: 1777

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Description

Pygmalion, a sculptor from Amathus on Cyprus, was discouraged by the morals of women and chose to focus on his art. He carved a realistic statue of his ideal woman out of ivory and named her Galatea. Pygmalion prayed to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, to make Galatea come to life. Aphrodite answered his prayers and brought the statue to life. Pygmalion and Galatea married and had a child named Paphos.

[moplopbool]

Listening to I don’t know how to love him and Strawberry blond has the side effect of making me think about sapphic people😄

I die just a little bit when I imagine Iphis lying awake each night, trying to remember every glance and touch Ianthe offered her the day before. The beauty in the melancholy is too great that I’m almost addicted to it, I think🫠

[illustratus]

Tereus' Banquet (Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itylus)

by Peter Paul Rubens

[aliciavance4228]

What I find funny about how ridiculously popular Ovid's version of Medusa became is that in the Metamorphoses her story isn't even written from an objective perspective or from her own point of view, and it's literally told by Perseus at his wedding at the end of Book 4. If he wouldn't have said anything about her besides the fact that he killed her then we wouldn't have thousands of Medusa retellings.