Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth (Part 2)

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If you would like to explore more about creation myths, feel free to click on the link above.  The picture above the link is Herb Roe's illustration of the Hero Twins from the Mayan myth of the Popol Vuh.

Ovid, Myths, and Epics

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Ovid is a poet and, specifically, the painter's poet, so I thought that I'd post a link to my EN 201 entry on the myths in his Metamorphoses.  The painting above is by Eugene Delacroix, and it depicts Ovid in exile.  (The Emperor Augustus exiled the poet from Rome.  Why?  There are a number of stories.)

I am also posting a picture from Mary Zimmerman's theatrical adaptation of the Metamorphoses.  Here Silenius the satyr is expressing his gratitude to King Midas for rescuing him.  I wish that MC would stage this play!!!