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
3
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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)
7
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Different from Theogony
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-all these things come before the gods and not from the gods
8
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Four Ages of Man
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- Golden
- Silver
- Bronze
- Iron
9
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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
13
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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?
14
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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
