Created by Yasmin, London, March 2023
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Metamorphoses – Famous work by Ovid about transformation
Narcissus – Youth turned into a flower after falling in love with his own reflection
Arachne – Boastful weaver transformed into a spider
Actaeon – Man turned into a deer by Artemis and killed by his won hounds
Constantinople – The fall of this city to the Turks caused many Byzantine scholars to come to Western Europe
Demeter – Goddess responsible for the changing of seasons
Tiresias – Blind seer from Thebes who was turned into a woman for seven years
Circe – A sorceress who changed Odysseus’ men into pigs
Phoenix – A bird that regenerates from the ashes of its predecessor
Odoacer – Germanic king who deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Ravenna – Capital of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476
Alexander – This man’s death is often referred to as the start of the Hellenistic era
Stoicism – a school of philosophy, famously followed by Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which believed the universe was continually recreated
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