Ovid Among the Scythians is the title of two oil paintings by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, executed in 1859 and 1862. The less famous second version...

preferred his poetry of exile. The picture Ovid among the Scythians, painted by Delacroix, portrays the last years of the poet in exile in Scythia, and was seen...

also depict the poet's treatment by the Scythians – particularly the Getae, a nomadic people related to the Dacians or Thracians. Ovid's poems in exile...

westernmost Scythians have often been distinguished from other groups through the terms Classical Scythians, Western Scythians, European Scythians or Pontic...

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène...

1862, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Ovid among the Scythians, 1862, version in Metropolitan Museum of Art At the sale of his work in 1864, 9140 works...

Dominique Ingres: Madame Moitessier Eugène Delacroix: Ovid Among the Scythians Edgar Degas: Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, Young Spartans Exercising Paul...

statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse Thomas Couture – Daydreams Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (first version) Robert...

ébéniste (cabinetmaker) whose career was spent in Paris. He was the maternal grandfather of the painter Eugène Delacroix. Nothing is securely known about his...

from the ancient Greek names for the Scythians, Skuthēs (Σκυθης) and Skuthoi (Σκυθοι), derived from the Scythian endonym Skuδatā. The Scythians originated...

The Musée national Eugène Delacroix (English: National Eugène Delacroix Museum), also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter...

Woman with Ibis (completed) Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (second version) Augustus Egg – The Travelling Companions Anselm Feuerbach – Iphigenia...

reached its peak with Ovid among the Scythians (1859), which depicts a scene of human barbarians and their animals. His painting of the mother and son tigers...

Verninac (1780–1827) was the daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and wife of the diplomat Raymond de Verninac...

wider Scythian cultures. They started migrating westward around the fourth and third centuries BC, coming to dominate the closely related Scythians by 200...

1845) was a French soldier who became a general in the Napoleonic army. He was the older brother of the painter Eugène Delacroix. Charles-Henri Delacroix...

eponymous king of the Scythians, along with his brothers Agathyrsus ("much raging") and Gelonus (see below). The following table lists the principal offspring...

Greek tradition by the Roman poet Ovid in his poem Fasti, where during a feast of the gods Vesta is nearly raped in her sleep by the god Priapus, and only...

(Art UK), Louis-Auguste Schwiter (Art UK), Ovid among the Scythians (Art UK) Paul Delaroche (1797–1856 ) (Art UK): The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (Art UK)...

and annexed it as far as the Danube, under the name of Limes Scythicus ("Scythian Frontier"). In AD 8, the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC–17AD) was banished...

from Greece, the Scythians were said to ritually kill one in a hundred prisoners of war as an offering to their equivalent of Ares. The later belief that...

from men, were familiar among the Scythian horsemen too. In the battle with the centaurs Caeneus proved invulnerable, until the Centaurs crushed him with...

attributed to the Scythians in the Pontic steppes. However, the identification of the Agathyrsi as a Scythian tribe is controversial, because the making of...

Heracles accepted the request, and became by her the father of Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scythes. The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to...

(130 mi) (from the Pseudostoma) according to Pliny (iv. 12. s. 26). Scymnus (Fr. 51) describes it as of easy navigation, and abounding in fish. Ovid (ex Pont...

Darius the Great, campaigned against the Scythians, the Thracian tribes in the Balkans surrendered to Darius on his way to Scythia, and only the Getae...

with Iasion in the triple-furrowed field; Zeus was aware of it soon enough and hurled the bright thunderbolt and killed him." However, Ovid states that Iasion...

his Persian army over the Bosphorus and campaigns unsuccessfully against the Scythians on the Danube. 513 BC – Darius subdues the Getae and east Thrace...

and Ovid, represent a second strand of disparagement, with an emphasis on Achilles' erotic career. This strand continues in Latin accounts of the Trojan...

classed as Scythians" and "members of the Scythian race". Likewise, the sixth-century historian Zosimus, reporting events around 280 AD, refers to "the Bastarnae...