Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story?
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The story of Hypermnestra’s faithfulness to her husband, her trial for not murdering him, and what happened to her sisters, the Danaides.
One of Ovid’s best stories, of a man who inadvertently kills his wife when she suspects him of having an affair with a nymph when he should be hunting.
After the people of Aegina are almost wiped out by a plague, Jupiter gives its king an army of hard workers who became the fearsome Myrmidons in the Trojan War.
Fathered by King Aegeus and Poseidon, after revealing sandals and a sword, Medea tried to poison him with aconite to stop him knowing his father.
Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – which is the true face of Medea, and why shouldn’t you try to paint her?
A woman who became pregnant as a result of incest, whose only portrait is in the Vatican Museums, and another whose husband was first to be killed in the war against Troy, whose painting is near Nelson’s dockyard.
Apollo’s chariot, that of Pluto and Achilles, the Trojan Horse, Lady Godiva’s, and the mount of Saint George when he slays the dragon.
Medea tricks the daughters of King Pelias into trying to rejuvenate their father, and they end up killing him. She splits up with Jason, then murders their two sons.
Jason’s father was too old to celebrate his son’s success in getting the Golden Fleece, so his wife Medea uses sorcery to wind the clock back and make him young again.
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