Myrrha

myrrha Translingual right|thumb|Myrrha octodecimguttata species Etymology Borrowed from mul la myrrha and mul grc μύρρᾱ myrrh. Proper noun 1 f genus family Coccinellidae certain ladybirds Hypernyms genus ; Coccinellinae subfamily subfamily; Coccinellini tribe tribe Hyponyms genus Myrrha (Metamyrrha) subgenus 1, Myrrha (Myrrha) subgenus 1 subgenera Myrrha octodecimguttata species (or Myrrha (Myrrha) octodecimguttata) species References Myrrha (beetle) Myrrha (beetle) 1 1 3216596 524508 mul Beetles English right|thumb|Birth of Adonis, an engraving by Bernard Picart, et al. for Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book X Etymology From en la Myrrha, from en grc Μύρρα. Proper noun en Greek mythology The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis. en 1975 Karl Galinsky Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects 89 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CYfUh06Ng-kC&pg=PA89&dq=%22Myrrha%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QGcZU5rdCMiHkAWbvIGIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Myrrha%22&f=false Byblis lies motionless in mute desperation and her transformation is told only briefly, whereas Myrrha herself asks for her metamorphosis, gives a speech (10.483-7), and Ovid leads us step by step through her transformation (10.489-502). en 1977 Marcel Detienne The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology 63 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CA9OAXb1d5QC&pg=PA63&dq=%22Myrrha%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QGcZU5rdCMiHkAWbvIGIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Myrrha%22&f=false The resemblance between this Myrrhina and the Myrrha who seduces her father is all the greater in that in one of the versions of the myth of Adonis, his mother is transformed by metamorphosis into not a myrrh tree but a sprig of myrtle. en 2006 David M. Robinson Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century 175 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LdXlsCzzPgEC&pg=PA175&dq=%22Myrrha%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QGcZU5rdCMiHkAWbvIGIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Myrrha%22&f=false In the succeeding book, Ovid depicts another woman tortured by abnormal but not impossible passion: Myrrha, in love with her father, Cinyras. Synonyms daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis en Smyrna