From “Amaryllis Through the Centuries” in Amaryllis by Starr Ockenga:
“Amaryllis: elegant, sensual, and mysterious….
“According to the classical poets Theocritus, Ovid, and Virgil, Amaryllis was a virginal nymph, timid and shy but with a spine of steel. She fell deliriously in love with Alteo, an icy-hearted shepherd reputed to be as handsome as Apollo and as strong as Hercules, and determined that she would be true only to him, no matter what the consequences. Indifferent to her charms, Alteo claimed his only desire was that a new flower be brought to him, a flower that had never before existed in the world….
“Amaryllis consulted the Oracle at Delphi and was instructed to pierce her heart with a golden arrow at Alteo’s door. This she did, dressed in maiden’s white, for thirty consecutive nights, dripping blood all the while. The shepherd finally opened his door to discover a flower with crimson petals, which had sprung from the blood of Amaryllis’s heart.”
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This is the last of three posts showing black-and-white conversions of the color photos I uploaded to:
Red and Pink Amaryllis (1 of 3);
Red and Pink Amaryllis (2 of 3); and
Red and Pink Amaryllis (3 of 3).
The first post in this black-and-white series is Red and Pink Amaryllis, in Black-and-White (1 of 3) and the second post is Red and Pink Amaryllis, in Black-and-White (2 of 3).
Thanks for taking a look!
