10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIPPOMENES»
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Hippomenes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hippomenes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
HIPPOMENES AND ATALANTA In myths, people often asked Venus to help them
find love. Hippomenes (hi-PUH-mee-ness) prayed to her when he wanted to
marry Atalanta (a-tuhl-AN-tuh). Atalanta did not want to marry. But her father
hoped ...
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Leveled Texts: Atalanta and
Hippomenes, The Race
retold. by. Stephanie. Paris. Once there lived a princess named Atalanta. She
was famous for her abilities as a hunter. She took great pride in besting the men
of the realm in all feats of skill. She had drawn first blood on a monstrous boar
that ...
THEGOLDEN APPLES take place, cheered wildly, urging the two to compete.
And since Hippomenes eagerly sought the same, Atalanta was forced to give in.
With a heavy heart, she consented to race the young man the next day. In the
pink ...
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Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses
10.575-99: 'Initially scornful, Hippomenes fell for her when he saw her running ' "
sederat Hippomenes, cursus spectator iniqui, 575 et 'petitur culquam per tanta
pericula coniunx?' dixerat, ac nimios iuuenum damnarat amores. ut faciem et ...
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Latin Via Ovid: A First Course
lam populus paterque cursum promissum poscunt. lam Hippomenes Venerem
hoc modo invocat: "0 dea Venus, iuva ignes amoris quos dedisti." Venus, his
precibus adducta et mota,1 sine mora auxilium dat. Est ager in parte optima
insulae ...
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A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's ...
But a two-way play is conveyed here, too, where the gazer is also fixed by the
image he sees, for the passive fixo referring to his vultus also implies that while
Hippomenes fixes the image with his eyes he is also fixed by it. The connections
with ...
Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell, 2005
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Reading the Ovidian Heroine: "Metamorphoses" Commentaries ...
into play when Venus is irked by Hippomenes' neglect of her deity and punishes
him accordingly. By thus shifting the reason for Atalanta's antisocial behavior,
Ovid both makes her sympathetic to the reader and legitimizes the uncertainty ...
Kathryn L. McKinley, 2001
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Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook
One spectator of these races was a young man named Hippomenes. He said to
himself, “Why are men so foolhardy, taking such a risk just for a bride?” Then he
saw Atalanta and exclaimed, “I take back what I said! I had no idea what a superb
...
Marianthe Colakis, Mary Joan Masello, 2007
eventually shares her bed with Hippomenes in a woodland shrine of Cybele, who
punishes both; having behaved like animals, they are made into beasts. 636- ut
rudis: Atalanta acts like an inexperienced girl in her first 37 love. quid facit ...
Ovid, William S. Anderson, 1972
THE STORY OF HIPPOMENES AND ATALANTA, RELATED BY VENUS.
Atalanta, a nymph of Arcadia, was celebrated for her swiftness in running. Her
beauty having gained her many admirers, she proposed that her suitors should
run a race ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIPPOMENES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Hippomenes is used in the context of the following news items.
Baroque in Rome. The Wonder of the Arts
... exhibition in Palazzo Cipolla are: Portrait of Costanza Bonarelli by Bernini; Atalanta and Hippomenes by Guido Reni (Museo di Capodimonte); The Triumph of ... «Culturekiosque, Apr 15»
Delving into a 400-year-old puzzle book, through song
Only Hippomenes realized that, although he could not outrun the speedy beauty, he might outsmart her. He tossed golden apples into her path ... «Philly.com, Mar 15»
The Apple of G-d's Eye...writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf
Hippomenes distracts Atalanta with three apples in Greek mythology. An 'Adam's apple' is a somewhat less than an edifying aesthetic feature ... «J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service, Feb 15»
Atalanta's Eclipse gets a run at Sydney's SH Ervin Gallery
The painting depicts the race between Atalanta and Hippomenes, recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Atalanta's father wanted her to marry ... «The Australian, Feb 15»
From the series Paris Opera Project (1990-91). From the exhibition …
... the painting of Atalanta and Hippomenes (one of the two versions of which is also in the Prado); but the presence of an adjacent pool of water ... «The Australian, Jul 13»
The forbidden fruit
In an attempt to avoid marriage, the nymph Atalanta outran all her suitors; all but one, Hippomenes. Hippomenes knew that he could not win in ... «Neos Kosmos, Apr 13»
In Need, French Museums Turn to Masses, Chapeaux in Hand
Some less celebrated landmarks — like as the tarnished statue of Hippomenes at St.-Cloud Park outside Paris — have not fared as well, ... «New York Times, Dec 12»
How the apple took over the planet
So the many legendary apples of Greek myth – the one given to Paris by Aphrodite, those thrown by Hippomenes to distract Atalanta or the ... «Salon, Oct 11»
Best. Sentence. Ever.
W.E.B. Du Bois (from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903):“Fly, my maiden, fly, for yonder comes Hippomenes!” Basically anything from the chapter ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jan 11»
The Frick also has tapestries
... Love" -- a name assigned it by Ms. Frick -- are unknown, but scholars think it could refer to the mythological tale of Atalante and Hippomenes. «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Dec 09»
