Ovid's Metamorphoses: Part B
author: Tony Kline
Characters:
Bacchus - twice born, once from his mother and another from Jupiter's leg.
Tiresias - Famous among Aonian cities, gave faultless answers to people who consulted him.
Dusky Liriope - Naiad, water nymph was raped by river-god Cephisus, beautiful nymph, gives birth to Narcissus, whom you could fall in love with at first sight.
Narcissus - son of Cephisus, "narcissistic", falls in love with himself or his reflection in the water. Becomes a flower through his own pain, his body turns to white petals and his heart the yellow center.
Echo - nymph, repeats the last words spoken from someone and returns some if not all of the words she hears. She falls for Narcissus, her body melts away with sorrow from unrequited love, she is nothing more than a voice.
Pyramus and Thisbe - Both are very lovely and young.
Vulcan - son of Juno, catches his wife Venus in bed with Mercury. Vulcan catches them with a beautifully crafted net that is so thin it could not be seen. When he catches the two he opens the Heavens for all the gods to see.
Perseus - has beating wings, brings monstrous prize (Medusa's head), finds Atlas with his beautiful land and asks for shelter.
Atlas - largest among men, rules one remote land, had thousands of flock and herds in his grass with the richest soil, golden trees
Medusa - Once the most beautiful and above all she had gorgeous hair. Neptune, lord of the sea, violated her in the temple of Minerva. Jupiter's daughter witnessed this, wanting to punish the woman for eternity turned her beautiful hair into serpents.
Thesbe and Pyramus
A story of Romeo and Juliet. They fall in love but their parents of course do not want them to see each other. The two communicate through a break in the wall (they are neighbors). Both run away in the night. Thisbe arrives first at the meeting place and sees a bloodstained beast. She runs to the forest and drops her veil in the process. The beast marks the veil with blood and tatters it. Pyramus finds the torn and bloody veil and assumes the worst. He kills himself with his own blade under the tree (the meeting place). Thisbe returns from the forest to find Pyramus only breaths away from death. She in turn kills herself. Before she dies she prays to the gods that they will stain the berries of the tree the color of their blood to signify their loss.
Atlas is turned into stone
Fearful of a prophecy legend told Atlas that the son of Jupiter would come and steal his land , so he told Perseus to leave. With this Perseus gave Medusa's head as a gift turning Atlas into a mountain.
Perseus finds Andromeda strapped to a mountain near a sea monster and rescues her. Once he sees her he wants to marry her. She does not refuse. The sea monster (Medusa) is slain by Perseus and Andromeda's parents are thrilled. Perseus takes the head and places it on living leaves but her head turns them to stone. This is why coral turns hard out of water.
How Perseus kills Medusa
Perseus finds a cave below the frozen slopes of Atlas. He beats the Graeae, three blind sisters who share one eye, and swiftly removes the eye. Farther in he finds the home of the Gorgons. While Medusa slept he took her head.
author: Tony Kline
Characters:
Bacchus - twice born, once from his mother and another from Jupiter's leg.
Tiresias - Famous among Aonian cities, gave faultless answers to people who consulted him.
Dusky Liriope - Naiad, water nymph was raped by river-god Cephisus, beautiful nymph, gives birth to Narcissus, whom you could fall in love with at first sight.
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| Narcissus flowers |
Echo - nymph, repeats the last words spoken from someone and returns some if not all of the words she hears. She falls for Narcissus, her body melts away with sorrow from unrequited love, she is nothing more than a voice.
Pyramus and Thisbe - Both are very lovely and young.
Vulcan - son of Juno, catches his wife Venus in bed with Mercury. Vulcan catches them with a beautifully crafted net that is so thin it could not be seen. When he catches the two he opens the Heavens for all the gods to see.
Perseus - has beating wings, brings monstrous prize (Medusa's head), finds Atlas with his beautiful land and asks for shelter.
Atlas - largest among men, rules one remote land, had thousands of flock and herds in his grass with the richest soil, golden trees
Medusa - Once the most beautiful and above all she had gorgeous hair. Neptune, lord of the sea, violated her in the temple of Minerva. Jupiter's daughter witnessed this, wanting to punish the woman for eternity turned her beautiful hair into serpents.
Thesbe and Pyramus
A story of Romeo and Juliet. They fall in love but their parents of course do not want them to see each other. The two communicate through a break in the wall (they are neighbors). Both run away in the night. Thisbe arrives first at the meeting place and sees a bloodstained beast. She runs to the forest and drops her veil in the process. The beast marks the veil with blood and tatters it. Pyramus finds the torn and bloody veil and assumes the worst. He kills himself with his own blade under the tree (the meeting place). Thisbe returns from the forest to find Pyramus only breaths away from death. She in turn kills herself. Before she dies she prays to the gods that they will stain the berries of the tree the color of their blood to signify their loss.
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| Medusa |
Fearful of a prophecy legend told Atlas that the son of Jupiter would come and steal his land , so he told Perseus to leave. With this Perseus gave Medusa's head as a gift turning Atlas into a mountain.
Perseus finds Andromeda strapped to a mountain near a sea monster and rescues her. Once he sees her he wants to marry her. She does not refuse. The sea monster (Medusa) is slain by Perseus and Andromeda's parents are thrilled. Perseus takes the head and places it on living leaves but her head turns them to stone. This is why coral turns hard out of water.
How Perseus kills Medusa
Perseus finds a cave below the frozen slopes of Atlas. He beats the Graeae, three blind sisters who share one eye, and swiftly removes the eye. Farther in he finds the home of the Gorgons. While Medusa slept he took her head.
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