Antoninus Liberalis
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Nov 1, 2026
ConnorHOST
I am going to read it to you in full.
ConnorHOST
It appears in just one work, Roman writer Antoninus Liberalis' Metamorphoses, written sometime in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, and the passage is short enough that I can read you the whole thing.
ConnorHOST
It says, Eumelus, son of Merops, had children who were haughty and arrogant, Bissa, Meropus, and Agron.
ConnorHOST
They lived on Kos, the Meroped Isle.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Indeed, Metamorphosis poetry was its own genre in classical and Hellenistic Greece, and, according to Dr. Fletcher, Ornithogonia is one of the only preserved sources of the genre prior to Ovid's writing in the Roman period.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Though Ornithogonia is now fragmentary, the story of the Strix was preserved in Antoninus Liberalis' Metamorphosian Synagoge, or Metamorphosis Collection, which is, according to Fletcher, the primary source for the fragments.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The following is Dr. Oliphant's summation of the story contained in Metamorphoses and Synagoge.
Katherine GoshenHOST
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Katherine GoshenHOST
Indeed, Metamorphosis poetry was its own genre in classical and Hellenistic Greece, and, according to Dr. Fletcher, Ornithogonia is one of the only preserved sources of the genre prior to Ovid's writing in the Roman period.
Katherine GoshenHOST
Though Ornithogonia is now fragmentary, the story of the Strix was preserved in Antoninus Liberalis' Metamorphosian Synagoge, or Metamorphosis Collection, which is, according to Fletcher, the primary source for the fragments.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The following is Dr. Oliphant's summation of the story contained in Metamorphoses and Synagoge.
Katherine GoshenHOST
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