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.
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The faithful king turned into a woodpecker, Aeneas’s long war against Turnus, his founding of the city of Alba, and promotion to deity on his death.
Ulysses visits Circe’s island, where his crew are turned into swine. When she tries to do the same with him, he refuses. They marry and spend a year together.
A survivor from Ulysses’ crew gives a brief account of the encounter between Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus, and its outcome.
More rich narratives, including Titania and Bottom, Falstaff, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Odysseus, Satan, Lady Macbeth, and Fairy Mab.
In 1781 he painted 3 masterpieces, of the suicide of Queen Dido of Carthage, ‘The Nightmare’ still famous today, and the Dream of Queen Katharine of Aragon.
His major commission of the First World War, ‘Gassed’, and final large masterpieces for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.
Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation.
Galatea falls in love with Acis, son of a river-god, but the Cyclops Polyphemus is in love with Galatea and is murderously jealous of Acis.
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