Join us for a marathon reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses This Spring!

These pages will be used for information pertaining to the Celebration of the Classics 2010-11.

Discussion of the Metamorphoses:   larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid2.htm

Website on Ovid's Metamorphoses

Plates from the 1703 text:  http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/baur1703/baur1703b1.html

The class text and project this year is Ovid's Metamorphoses.  As the project gets closer, all information will be found here.  Grades 6-12 will find all art project information here.

www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/index3.html   (lots of mythological pictures)

gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100128

www.latein-pagina.de/ovid/ovid_m10.htm

people2.hsc.edu/.../chapter_4/chapter_4.shtm

www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose/clas42art5.html

All woodcut images of Ovid's Metamorphoses

                                                                                                                    Engraving from Choix de metamorphoses by Jean-Baptiste Huet, Paris, Marcilly, 1801.

                                                                                                                    Illustration from a 1562 Edition by Virgil Solis

   

Regius                                                                                                                                    Woodcut

Flood: Deucalion and Pyrrha: photo of where their boat first touched ground after the flood (Mt. Parnassos) and where the flood waters were said to have drained out in to the earth (in Athens). Here is a woodcut from an illustrated Ovid from the 17th century illustrating this myth    

   Deucalion et Pyrrha
Oraza Fontana ou son atelier, 1565-71
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
http://www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/bonvall118.jpg

aardewerk uit Urbino, Italië, ca 1570

The children of Deucalion and Pyrhha are:
Hellen, Thyia, Pandora II (?), Protogeneia, and the Leleges.
This map shows the areas associated with all their descendants
except for those of Protogeneia.

Apollo and Daphne                                         The Apollo and Daphne     Raphael Regius

1744-45                                                           1622-1625,

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo                                                Bernini
Musée du Louvre, Paris                                                   

                           
painting Paolodi Matteis, c. 1700                                              The Master of the Die (Italian, fl. 1532-33),

Madison (University of Wisconsin), Elvehjem Museum.          Apollo pursuing Daphne (Bartsch XV.20ii).

Credits: Susan Bonvallet, 2001.                                                 Engraving after Giulio Romano, c. 1532.

                                                                                                        From the suite of four "Daphne and Apollo" engravings.

                                                                                                        The Master of the Die was active in Rome and engraved

                                                                                                        a number of works after Raphael and other members of his studio.