2 résultats pour "hippomène"

• ATAlANTE ET HIPPOMÈNE de RENI

  Analyse .... Guid o Re ni a ch oisi, dans le réci t d ' Ovi de, le m om ent où A ta la nte se pe nche po u r ramasser une d es pomm es d 'o r qu'H ip po m ène a traîtr eu­ sem e nt la issé tomber. Ce lui- ci e n p rofite p ou r la d épasse r et gagner la course do nt le prix sera la v irgi nité de la je u ne fille (et le trône de son pè re). La beauté des fi gu res des deu x je unes gens est habile m e nt m ise en vale ur par u ne lumiè r...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Meleager and Atalanta - anthology.

  Althea, when the deed was done, laid violent hands upon herself. The sisters of Meleager mourned their brother with uncontrollable grief; till Diana, pitying thesorrows of the house that once had aroused her anger, turned them into birds. Atalanta The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, yet too girlish for a boy. Her fortune had been told, and itwas to this effect: 'Atalanta, do not marry; marriage will be your ruin.' Terrified...