Is this Hecate, triple-headed goddess of the night, with owl and bats, or another of Blake’s mythology, representing spiritual beauty? A misidentified painting explained.
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The fall of Icarus, Calydonian boar hunt, Philemon and Baucis, the origin of the Horn of Plenty, death of Hercules, Orpheus and Eurydice, death of Hyacinthus, Pygmalion and Galatea, death of Adonis, and of Orpheus.
Summary and contents of the first 19 articles, covering the origin of the world, the great flood, fall of Phaëthon, rape of Europa, the fall of Thebes, and more.
The god of the seasons and gardens falls in love with a devoted gardener, but can’t woo her successfully when posing as someone else.
The lover of Venus is gored in the groin by a wild boar, and dies in pools of blood to be transformed into red anemone flowers.
The Roman goddess Minerva, the Greek statesman Solon, King Solomon, the three Magi, a ‘philosopher’ of Enlightenment, a scientist with a microscope, and the School of Athens.
Deathbed scenes of Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, General Wolfe, Marat, Géricault, Camille Monet, and a posthumous portrait that proved the death of Klimt.
Before 1700, the myth of Vertumnus and Pomona was popular, as was Mary Magdalene’s mistaking of the resurrected Christ as a gardener.
Europa’s brother Cadmus is told to found a new city wherever a cow leads him. After killing a man-eating dragon, he sows its teeth in the soil.
Book 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses start with an account of the creation, the four ages of man, then tells of the first transformation, of Lycaon into a (were)wolf.
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