Ovid

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Ovid 10
Songs of Orpheus
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Ganymede
The Trojan prince loved by Jupiter, who, taking
the form of an eagle, abducted him.
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Hyacinthus
Apollos close friend, killed by Apollo in a
discus accident.
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Apollo and the dying Hyacinthus
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Apollo and Hyacinthus
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion carved a woman out of ivory and fell in
love with his creation. He prayed to Venus to
make her real.
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Pygmalion and his Galatea
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Variations on the Pygmalion Theme

• My Fair Lady
• (based on the play, Pygmalion, by G. B. Shaw)
• Pretty Woman
• Shes All That

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Cinyras Myrrha
Myrrha fell in love with her father, Cinyras, and
contrived to sleep with him without his knowing
who she was. When he discovered what shed done,
he pursued her to kill her.
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Myrrha turned into the myrrh tree and gave birth
to Adonis, her child and brother.
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Cinyras Myrrha Myrrhas tranformation birth
of Adonis Adonis was loved by Venus
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The birth of Adonis, Venus looking on at left.
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Adonis, the hunter, and Venus, who begged him not
to hunt dangerous creatures
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Artistic conceptions of Venus and Adonis.
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Atalanta and Hippomenes
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Adonis was killed by a wild boar and Venus grief
was enormous.
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End of Orpheus songs, followed in Ovid by the
death of Orpheus at the hands of wild Baccants.