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When the earth is repopulated after the flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha toss stones (the "bones" of mother earth) behind them that begin to take on human form, "not well defined, but like roughed-out statues." (21) Thus, in both the pre- and post- flood worlds that Ovid describes, the statue motif plays a crucial role in establishing the connection of the spiritual and material in human form: humans are earth and stone formed in the image of the gods and brought to life by some divine spark, the very miracle celebrated in ekphrasis.

The Lifelike Statues of Ovid and Pushkin's Orthodoxy

However, it escaped your attention that our president was throwing stones over his shoulders --as Deucalion did in Greek mythology- to increase the number of his supporters who were eulogised by the Archbishop so that the he can safeguard their votes in the coming presidential elections.

Saying goodbye toEspenBarth Eide

Notas, despues del diluvio, para el nuevo viaje de Deucalion. Deucalion, Madrid, junio 1986, p.

Correspondence Jose Angel Valente/Angel Crespo: introdution, transcription and notes/Epistolario Jose Angel Valente/Angel Crespo: presentacion, transcripcion y notas

Your stones must yield, Deucalion! They were given life, but these ones, given life, are life-giving too.

Never ending stories: having fired the imaginations of artists since the Renaissance, Ovid's epic mythological poem Metamorphoses has undergone numerous transformations of its own

Deucalion Stephanos (Stephan) is the thirteen year-old son of King Minos of Crete and it is through him that the tale is told.

Womack, Philip: The Double Axe (Blood and Fire)

(27) Emile Benveniste, 'Le Jeu comme structure', Deucalion, vol.

Interpreting Huizinga through Bourdieu: a new lens for understanding the commodification of the play element in society and its effects on genuine community

(41) John Ruskin, "Yewdale and Its Streamlets," delivered in 1877, in Deucalion, in Works, 26: 265.

Stem and skein: order and evolution in Hopkins