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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
~ 437 years ago