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Myrrha mother of Adonis; daughter of Adonis’s father. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 741] See : Incest How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Because of her use of simplified geometric forms to evoke poetic feelings and sensuality, the Brazilian artist Mira Schendel (1919-88; born Myrrha Dagmar Dub in Switzerland) has often been linked to the Neo-concrete art developed in Brazil as an offspring of and reaction to international Constructivism, placing her on an equal footing with such pioneers as Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, and Lygia Pape. Unlike the Myrrha of Ovid's Metamorphoses, whose lust for her father leads her to trick him into sex, Hopkins's Mira is raped by her white master/brother. Jeanne Steig often follows Ovid scene by scene, preserving the gist of his dialogue and even his puns: asked whether Narcissus will be granted long life, blind Tiresias responds, "If he knows himself not, Great age be his lot"; while the old nurse delivers Myrrha to her unknowing father with a duplicitous "Take her. |
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