The Imaginary Museum

Perhaps y' haue heard of one Hippolytus ; By Step-dames fraud, and fathers credulous Beliefe bequeath'd to death. Admire you ma...

In this Kings reigne Pomona (1) livd. There was not to bee found Among the woodnymphes any one in all the Latian ground That was so conn...

... So ended The story, and the Nereids went their ways Swimming the peaceful waters. Scylla only, Fearing the far-off deeps, came wan...

Lucie Plato, "Justice" (2003) Picture a space at the heart of the world, between the earth, the sea and the sky, on the ...

“Pygmalion observed how these women lived lives of sordid indecency, and, dismayed by the numerous defects of character Nature had given...

Weary of exile, hating Crete, his prison, Old Daedalus grew homesick for his country Far out of sight beyond his walls – the sea. “Tho...

Aegeus, King of Athens, has taken the sorceress Medea as his new wife: "The only blemish of his prudent life." ... Mean-while...

from "The Flaying of Marsyas" by Robin Robertson nec quicquam nisi vulnus erat vi, 388 1 A bright clearing. Sun among...

‘I was a nymph of Achaia. None loved the woods, And setting their hunting nets, as keenly as I did. I was all action and energy, And ...

- Francisco Benitez, "Daughters of Minyas" (c.2002/3) The daughters of Minyas impiously reject the cult of Bacchus. To pass t...

… Making clear that this was a one-time favor, she had been on the point of swearing that never again would it happen that an old perso...

[ The Metamorphoses of Ovid : A New Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum. San Diego: Harcourt, 1993. 60-61.] "My father was a ...