Philemon and Baucis


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Philemon and Baucis,

in Greek mythology, Phrygian husband and wife. When Zeus and Hermes visited earth as men, only Philemon and Baucis offered them hospitality. As a reward they were saved from a punitive flood and were made priest and priestess to the gods. They died together and were turned into trees whose branches intertwined.
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Philemon and Baucis

fabled aged couple. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
See: Age, Old

Philemon and Baucis

poor couple welcomes disguised gods refused by rich households. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
See: Hospitality

Philemon and Baucis

couple turned into an oak and a linden so that they are together in death. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 698]
See: Transformation
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The tale, which was depicted by such artists as Rembrandt ("Philemon and Baucis") and Peter Paul Rubens ("Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis") was taken up and revised by Goethe in Part II, Act V of Faust, a passage which provides a vital intertext for the interpretation of Calvino's Baucis, especially for the implications of Goethe's rewriting of Ovid as a cautionary tale about modern urban planning.
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The last of the stories, "Philemon and Baucis," is set decades later at a dacha outside Moscow, whose aging inhabitants are a caricature of antiquity's devoted spouses.
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