jan 1, 1589 - "Glaucus and Scilla" by Thomas Lodge
Description:
- urbanely comic treatment of a grotesque love-affair based on an Ovidian story(Scilla, who repulses the sea-god Glaucus, is changed into a monster in retaliation)
- helped to popularise the emerging genre of the long mythological Ovidian poem (epyllion)
- similar themes etc. as Venus and Adonis
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Date:
jan 1, 1589
Now
~ 436 years ago