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Theseus requests the god to tell his woes

DMI number:
11709
Poem Aliases
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book IX.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Theseus requests the god to tell his woes
Last Line:
And verdant reeds in garlands bind his head
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, Narrative verse, and Couplet
Themes:
Animals[Bull], Fighting / conflict, Mythology, and Virtue / vice[Honour lost]
Related People
Author:
John Gay
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 185-8. See Hopkins, 'Dryden and the Garth-Tonson Metamorphoses', p.65
Translated from:
Ovid
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [N41874 ] [vol.2] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.43-47
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T108889]
Page No(s):
pp.297-301
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T128848, Vol.2]
Page No(s):
pp.104-109
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T138611]
Page No(s):
pp.297-301
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T169738] [vol.2]
Page No(s):
pp.91-95
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T175634] [vol.2] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.91-95
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99153] [Vol.2]
Page No(s):
pp.87-91
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99262, Vol 2]
Page No(s):
pp.91-95
Poem Title:
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book IX... The Story of Achelous and Hercules.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay