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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.100-6.108


amplectens saxoque iacens lacrimare videtur.that spans new glory in the curving sky


Circuit extremas oleis pacalibus oras:its glittering rays reflected in the rain


is modus est, operisque sua facit arbore finem.preads out a multitude of blended tints


Maeonis elusam designat imagine tauriin scintillating beauty to the sight


Europam: verum taurum, freta vera putares.of all who gaze upon it; — so the threads


Ipsa videbatur terras spectare relictasinwoven, mingled in a thousand tints


et comites clamare suas tactumque vereriharmonious and contrasting; shot with gold:


adsilientis aquae timidasque reducere plantas.and there, depicted in those shining webs


Fecit et Asterien aquila luctante teneriwere shown the histories of ancient days:—


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

2 results
1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.175-1.176, 2.873-2.875, 6.1-6.99, 6.101-6.145, 15.852-15.879 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

2. Ovid, Tristia, 2.207-2.212 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology,origins,causae Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
agriculture Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
ahl,frederick m. Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
alexandrian poetry Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
antiquarian literature Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
apollo Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
arachne,as victim Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
arachne,contest with minerva Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
arachne Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
artists and gods Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
astronomy,stars Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
audience,confrontation of Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
audiences,power of Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
augustan religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
augustus,augustus house on the palatine Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
augustus/octavian,as reader Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
augustus/octavian,relation with the gods Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
autocracy Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
calendar Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
closeness to the gods,of augustus and vesta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
comedy Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
concordia,concord Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
daphne Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
discrepancies in the imperial discourse Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
disguise Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
dishonesty,as motif in weaving competition Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
doubt Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
dynastic strife Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
epic Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
eulogy Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
fasti praenestini Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
hermeneutic,alibi Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
hyperbole Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
immortality Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
imperial family Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
inventions,of aetiologies Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
io Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
irony,ironic Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
irreverence Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
judgment Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
jupiter Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
jupiter (zeus),rapes by Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
linkages,narrative Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
literary genre Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
lotis Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
mercury Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
mime,mimus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
minerva (athena),chastity and virginity enforced by Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
morality,moralistic language,immoral behaviour Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
morality Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
narrative structures,linking devices Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
olympians,disguise before mortals Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
ovids poems,metamorphoses Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
pax augusta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
performance Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
phallus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
playfulness Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
poets,rivalry with the princeps Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
power,and figured speech of the weak Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
power,arbitrary Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
power,mortal / immortal imbalance of Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
power,of audiences Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
priapus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
propaganda Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21
rapes,as subject of arachnes tapestry Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
realism Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
relation with reality Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
religious-political legitimisation Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
religious innovations Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
revisionary Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 22
sexual subjects in art,on arachnes tapestry Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
sexual subjects in art,realism and Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
sexuality Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56, 240
spinning and weaving Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
transformations,as dissimulation by the olympians Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
verrius flaccus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 56
vesta Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
vicomagistri Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 240
virginity or chastity,minerva as enforcer of Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
visual texts Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21, 22
weaving,arachne as victim in contest Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 85
women' Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 21