Clas 220 1st Edition Quiz Lecture 22 1. Which woman pursued by Jupiter is turned into a laurel tree?- Daphne2. Which hideous creature does Juno send to guard lo?- Argos 3. Which woman loves Narcissus? – Echo 4. Who is Andromeda’s mother? Cassiopeia5.Ovid- 43 BC – from wealthy provincial family – wrote didactic poetry about love – exiled in 8 AD because of a mistake in a poem “Carmen et error” so he wrote poetry from exile in modern Romania - Believes less is more-Metamorphoses- Epic poem in 15 books- Episodic narrative- a series of myths about transformations- Borrows from a lot of different poems buts condenses them and tells them in unusual versions - Structure- o Creationo Loves of the godso The Theban Cycleo The Perseus Cycleo Contests between the gods and men o The Athenian Cycle o The Orpheus Cycle o The Trojan Cycle o The Aeneas Cycleo The Roman Cycle Creation- He universe is created out of chaos - Ages of mankind o Golden age: no war or agricultureo Silver age: Saturn falls; age of Jove; seasons, agricultureo Bronze age: war with honoro Iron age: “our” own time; fallen and corrupt - The flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha o Flood destroys all of humanity except two people and they need to repopulate- throw mothers bones behind them – mother earth/ stones These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Loves of the Gods- Apollo and Daphneo She gets turned into a tree – feet became roots- face and head= crown of tree - Daphne and lo both have rivers for fathers- Lo- Jupiter falls in love with her and wants to have sex with her with out Juno knowing- Juno gets suspicious so he turns Lo into a cow -= Juno takes her away and send Argos to guard her – Jupiter send Mercury so he can kill him and take Io. – Juno torments her with a fly and eventually she gets turned back into a human and had a son Epaphus. - Epaphus brags that his mom is a goddess; Phaethon is jealous - Phaethon- he asks to drive the son’s chariot to prove that the sun is his father- he cant control it and causes disaster - Jove tours the Earth to make sure all is well; in Arcadua he meets Callisto- Callisto- falls in love with her – Jove disguises himself as Diana and then they have sex and Callisto becomes pregnant and then turned into a bear - The raven and the crow/ Apollo and Coronis/ Erichthonis – raven gets turned black – Hephaestus tries to rape Athena – seamen into ground to Erichtonious - Ocyrchoe- Apollo rescues his son and sends him to be raised by Cyclopes- turned into a horse - Chiron gives; begs Apollo for help, but is falling in love - Mercury and Battus- Hermes steals the cattle – bribes battus not to tell and he swears but he does and then Mercury turns him into stone - Aglauros- Mercury falls in love with Herse- Aglarous gets turned into a statue- Jupiter and Europa – Jupiter falls in love and disguised himself as a bull to get close to her and seduces her - Europa’s father sends her brother, Cadmus, to look for her-The Theban Cycle - Cadmus- ends up finding Thebes – slays serpent and plants teeth in soil- grows into warriors but they all almost immediately die in battle- 5 survive and rule Thebes - Diana and Actaeon – finds nymphs hunting so Acteon is turned into a stag and his hunting dogs kill him - Semele and Bacchus- another mortal woman that Jupiter falls in love with- Juno convinces him to see Jupiter in his full glory and she gets burned- saves baby and attaches to his thigh - While Bacchus is being nursed on earth, Jove and Juno get talking - Tiresias- who enjoys sex more men or woman? He was both a man and a women and agrees with Jupiter - Narcissus and echo- Narcissus is beautify 16 year old boy- echo is an annoying nymph so Juno he falls in love with first person he sees- himself (in reflection). Echo has to repeat what narcissus what says - Penthceus and Bacchus- captures soldiers and they become dolphins – pentheus’ prisoner escapes and ripped to shreds by his mother and aunts- The daughters of Minyas- refuse to worship Dionysus and gossip – turned into bats o Stories they tell – Pyramus and Thisbe (Romeo and Juliet like) o The sun in love with Leucothoe- sun sees venus and mars trapped in net having sex so his punishment is to love Leucothoe – father buries her aliveo Salamcia and Hermaphroditus – nymph falls in love with him he wants to escape she asks to become one- he gets womanly features. Anyone who enters pond comes out opposite gender - Athamas and Ino- kills children with rocks she escapes into the sea - Transformation of Cadmus- turned into snake Perseus