Lecture 22 Flashcards

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Ovid

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  • Born the year after Caesar’s assassination
  • Wealthy family
  • Trained as a lawyer, but abandoned law to become a poet
  • Best known for his erotic poetry (exp. to lover Corinna who may or may not be real)
  • Also mock didactic poems: The Art of Love, The Cures for Love
  • Exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea: “A poem (The Art of Love) and a mistake”
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Mock didactic poems

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  • Chauvenistic
    • Facetious/Sarcastic
    • Subversive
      • overturn them
      • show them in a different light as not true
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Why is Ovid’s description amoral?

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  • Encouraging sexuality before marriage
  • Ancient world
    • marriages are political
    • women are really young (13 or 14), not women, girls
  • Ovid when talking about a premarital relationship he’s talking about extramarital affairs because the marriage material girls are too young
  • Any sexually eligible woman is already married
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The Metamorphoses

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  • Ovid’s Epic Poem
  • Dactylic Hexameter: meter of Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
  • Sometimes considered a “mock-epic”
  • 15 books 250 myths
  • Primary source of ancient myth
  • One of the most popular and influential works of all time
  • Major themes: changes, love, gods vs. humans
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The Prologue’s similarities

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  • Tells us what the books about
    • the history of the world
    • changes and the gods involvement
  • Invokes the muses
  • Starts in the beginning like the Theogony
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In The Beginning

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First is Chaos
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with influence of “a god” and “nature”
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Elements:
Fire, Air, Earth, Water
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(the earth, sky, sea) (stars, planets) (animals, man)

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Different from Theogony

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-all these things come before the gods and not from the gods

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Four Ages of Man

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  • Golden
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Iron
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Golden

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  • Saturn
  • No laws, courts
  • No travel by sea
  • No fortifications or battles
  • No farming
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Silver

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  • Jupiter’s rule
  • Seasons of the year
  • People live in houses
  • Agriculture begins
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Bronze

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  • Crueler than previous

- War

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Iron

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  • No loyalty, truth, conscience
  • Sea-faring begins
  • Property ownership
  • Mining begins
  • War, theft, cheating
  • No safety for guests or family
  • Justice abandons the earth
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The Palatine Hill, Rome

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  • Home of Augustus and other members of the super-elite
  • Comparing Augustus to Jupiter
  • Jupiter is about to destroy everything and kill everyone
  • Flattering or nah?
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Lycaon

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  • Lycaon boiled his guest and cooked him violating xenia and tried to feed him to Jupiter to test his omniscience
  • Recognized what happened and Jupiter turns him into a wolf
  • Worlds first werewolf
  • Sends down the flood to punish all the humans
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Deucalion and Pyrrha

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  • only humans left after the flood
  • Deucalion is son of Prometheus
  • Pyrrha is daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora
  • Land at Delphi and get an oracle by Themis
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Themis

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  • Oracle at Delphi
  • Pick up the bones of their mother and throw them over their shoulders to repopulate the earth
  • Throw rocks over their shoulders and rebuild earth with new humans
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Apollo and Daphne

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  • Daughter of river god–>Nymph
  • Apollo falls in love with her and she runs away
  • Apollo chases her and she attempts to escape and is turned into a laurel tree (bay)
  • Sacred tree of Apollo
  • Transformed by her father
  • Not even able to give away even though she loses her humanity and is still possessed by him.
  • Physically: kissing and embracing
  • also makes the laurel tree his symbol
  • What emperors and royalty wear
  • Augustus had a wreath of this over his door
  • Ovid makes Apollo seem creepy and pervy and this violation is associated with Augustus
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Jupiter and Io

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  • Jupiter sees Io and decides he wants to rape her
  • She fled and was unable to escape
  • Juno figures it out so Jupiter turns Io into a cow
  • Juno thinks it’s beautiful and takes it for herself, she is not tricked
  • Juno locks Io the cow up and has a monster (Argus) watch her
  • Jupiter has Mercury kill the monster and frees Io
  • Jupiter doesn’t turn Io back into a human
  • In the end she is turned into Isis
  • Etiology for this Egyptian goddess
  • This whole story makes Jupiter look bad and we should remember that earlier Ovid had compared Augustus to Jupiter