The Abraham Cowley
Text and Image Archive
Ovid:
Metamorphoses Illustratae
Illustrations of Ovid's
Metamorphoses
by Virgil Solis
with a verse commentary in Latin by Johann Spreng, 1563
For the whole book and more, visit
Ovid Illustrated: the Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text
.
Here are links for the major Ovidian allusions in Cowley's
Plantarum
:
Title-page
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Distribution of the Elements
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The Golden Age
War of the Giants
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Flood's End
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Python's End
Daphne into Laurel
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Io into a Cow
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Syrinx into a Reed, the First Flute
Phaethon's Fall
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Heliades into Trees
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Jove into a Bull
Semele, Jove, Dionysus
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Narcissus into a Flower
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Bacchus' Rites or Triumph
Venus' Adultery with Mars
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Pyramus and Thisbe
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Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Hades' Rape of Persephone
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Arethusa into a Fountain
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Marsyas Flayed by Apollo
Procne Slays Her Own Child
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Jason Puts the Dragon to Sleep
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Medea Kills Her Children
Aeson Rejuvenated
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Hercules and Cerberus
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The Plague in Aegina
Theseus Conquers the Minotaur
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Meleager's Calydonian Boar-Hunt
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Erysichthon Fells the Oak
Nessus Shot with an Arrow
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Hercules and Achelous
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Lotus; Dryope into a Tree
The Girl Iphis into a Boy
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Orpheus Playing the Lyre
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The Boy Cyparissus into a Tree
Hyacinthus into a Flower
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Myrrha Tries to Hang Herself
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Myrrha Goes to Bed with her Father
Myrrha into a Tree
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Adonis into an Anemone
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Orpheus beyond the Bacchantes
Midas' Ears into Ass's
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The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
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Ajax's Quarrel with Ulysses
Ajax Kills Himself
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Aeneas' Piety toward his Father
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Ulysses' Crew into Swine
Fisherman Glaucus into a Sea-God
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Vertumnus into an Old Woman
Ovid Links
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