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Sometimes the relief at seeing an opponent fall, knowing that the fight is over, quickly metamorphoses into a cold and icy fear, born of the realisation that the opponent isn't moving.

Lyn Slater will be the first to tell you her life has been a series of happy accidents and purposeful metamorphoses.

The painting in question, entitled Diana and Actaeon, dates from the Renaissance era and portrays a mythical scene from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.

In one essay, Lahiri draws apt parallels between the translator’s seemingly subservient and often undervalued art, and the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”

Chicago’s Lookingglass Theater, where Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses” had its premiere before coming to Broadway, has halted programming until next spring.