#metamorphoses

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[classicslesbianopinions]

"average greek myth involves a god turning someone into something else" factoid actualy just statistical error. average greek myth involves 0 gods turning someone into something else. metamorphoses ovid, who lives in exile & writes over 10,000 transformation myths a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[7pleiades7]

The Death of Icarus (19th century), (detail), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 44" x 31.5", Private Collection

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

reading Metamorphoses by Ovid

[hycinthrt]

you are laughing, his dying head sunk into his shoulder like a broken flower and you are laughing

[petaltexturedskies]

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

Ovid, Metamorphoses

[eirene]

Thisbe, 1875

Edwin Long

[dykeganseythethird]

to die in your lovers arms

bluesey as françois gérard’s orpheus tries to hold on to eurydice, ca. 1791

[lyculuscaelus]

We’re in one of the oldest fandoms where the canon itself is long lost and the source materials for us to draw inspiration from are those of the earliest fanfics themselves—two of which being commonly accepted as beta canon due to their top quality. Sometimes these fanfics contradict each other due to all sorts of OOCs and inconsistencies which is forcing us to choose our own sources to rely on to draw fanart and write fanfics. Each generation of fanfic writers are introducing more headcanons in their works and sometimes their fanfics of fanfics become so popular that they are prompting new sub-fandoms to emerge, inspiring more people to draw fanart and write fanfics for these fanfics of fanfics. It’s almost as if there is a family tree of fanfics and we’re now reaching the third generation and beyond

[enchantedbook]

'Allegory' by Louis Moe, 1940

[lionofchaeronea]

Jupiter and Mercury at the House of Philemon and Baucis, workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1620-25

[illustratus]

Tereus' Banquet (Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itylus)

by Peter Paul Rubens

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Diana et Callisto; Federico Cervelli 17th AD

[cuties-in-codices]

pan

in a copy of the "ovide moralisé", a medieval translation of ovid's "metamorphoses", paris, 1380s

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 176, fol. 355r

[hlblng]

Leda. No Swan.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

To every new person in the Greek myth fandom who shits on Athena because of what she did to Medusa....

Can y'all like..... Idk maybe NOT take Ovid's Metamorphoses as your ONLY source of Medusa's origin story?? (Furthermore that version isn't Greek either, it's Roman. So it's not Athena anyway, it's Minerva in that case).

And maybe like... Idk look at the GREEK myths (where Medusa didn't HAVE a traumatic backstory) that PRECEDE Ovid's version?? Would really not hurt you to look at and/or consider more than just one interpretation of the story.

PS: This is NOT to say that you CAN'T consider Ovid's version at all. You can, but atleast don't consider only THAT version to be canon. Cuz it's not. Myths like this don't follow a linear path. They are branched into several different versions. And cherry-picking only one of them while actively pretending the other versions don't exist at all is not gonna help you in your theological development.