Ovid

Question 1

Lycaon

Answer 1

Told by Zeus, king Lycaon denies that it’s really Zeus, tries to feed him human meat and kill him. Results in him turning into wolf. Causes end of world

Question 2

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Answer 2

Ovid telling story. Post flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha are all who remain. They are pious, go to oracle, told to cast their mother’s bones behind their back. They throw stones, which turn into men and women.

Question 3

Phaethon

Answer 3

Told by Ovid. Phaethon is son of Helios, he seeks him out. Helios offers him one wish, Phaethon wants to drive the chariot. Helios must allow, but Phaethon can’t ctrl chariot, goes to high and too low, burns earth until Zeus kills him with bolt. Sisters become trees, amber tears. Friend Cycnus becomes a swan.

Question 4

Arachne

Answer 4

Ovid telling story. Arachne is a fine weaver, has a contest with Minerva. Tapestries depict different ideas of the relationship btwn gods and mortals. Arachne wins. Minerva hits her with shuttle and turns her into a spider.

Question 5

Philemon and Baucis

Answer 5

Lelex is speaking, Jupiter and Mercury came to visit, Though P and B were poor, they treated the two guests very well and were rewarded with endless wine, and told to go up the mountain to avoid upcoming flood. House becomes temple, they ask to be priests and guards of temple and to die at same time. They became trees together at ripe old age.

Question 6

Daphne

Answer 6

Ovid speaking. Apollo makes fun of Cupid’s bow and arrow, so Cupid fires love arrow of gold into Apollo and Iron arrow of disgust into Daphne. Apollo pursues, bad pickup lines, Daphne transforms into tree. Apollo uses her branches as laurel wreath of victory.

Question 7

Io

Answer 7

Ovid speaking. Jupiter fell in love with her, raped her as a storm cloud, turned her into cow to hide her from Juno. He gives Juno the cow, she sets Argus to watch her, drives her mad with gadfly. Jupiter has Mercury kill Argus and set her free. Pan and Syrinx story told by Mercury puts Argos to sleep. Io gets turned back by Juno.

Question 8

Callisto

Answer 8

Ovid speaking. She is tired, goes to a pure pond to bathe, Jupiter takes form of Diana and rapes her. Gets discovered 9 months later bc she’s pregnant, Diana turns her into a bear. Almost is killed by her son, but Jupiter turns them into constellations. Juno angry, so they don’t get to touch the ocean.

Question 9

Raven and Crow

Answer 9

Ovid speaking for Raven. The Crow tells his story of how he spied on daughters of Cecrops peeking into basket. For gossip Minerva places him beneath the owl. Crow was once a royal princess, Neptune pursued her so asked for help and was turned into crow. Raven ignores story, tells Apollo of lover’s infidelity. He fires arrow at her, killing her even though she’s pregnant. He sends baby to Chiron.

Question 10

Ocyrhoe

Answer 10

Ovid Speaking. Daughter of Chiron reveals too much prophecy and gets turned into horse. Predicts Chiron’s death and child’s role as Healer.

Question 11

Battus

Answer 11

Ovid Speaking. Mercury has cows, asks Battus to keep them a secret. Comes back and asks, Battus blabs, gets turned into hard flint rock.

Question 12

Aglauros

Answer 12

Ovid speaking. Mercury falls in love with Herse, Aglauros sees him coming, asks who he is. Mercury asks for her to let him woo Herse. She asks for gold in return. Minerva doesn’t like this and has Envy come and poison her. She tries to stop Mercury and have him herself, for this Mercury turns her into a black rock.

Question 13

Europa

Answer 13

Ovid Speaking. Jupiter comes to Europa as a cow. She rides him, he takes her across sea to Crete.

Question 14

Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 14

Daughter of Minyas tells story while spinning. Star crossed lovers, try to escape and meet. Thisbe runs from lion, Pyramus finds her shirt and thinks she’s dead. Kills self. Thisbe finds him. Kills self.

Question 15

Mars and Venus

Answer 15

Other daughter, Leuconoe, tells story. Helios sees Venus and Mars having affair. Tells Vulcan. Vulcan casts a net on them during the act, every comes and points and laughs.

Question 16

The Sun in Love: Leucothoe

Answer 16

Told by Leuconoe. Venus’ revenge. Makes Helios love Leucothoe. He appears to her in form of her mother and rapes her. In consequence, her father buries her alive. Helios tries to revive her insuccessfully, makes her a flower.

Question 17

Hermaphroditus

Answer 17

Alcithoe speaking. Son of Mercury and Venus is beautiful. Nymph Salamacis wants him. He bathes in a pristine pond at noon. She attacks, clings to him until their bodies are melded together into both male and female. The pond diminishes manhood.

Question 18

Niobe

Answer 18

Ovid speaking. Niobe has lots of daughters and sons, doesn’t worship Latona. Apollo and Diana kill all children with arrows. Niobe in mourning turns into stone.

Question 19

Marsyas

Answer 19

Theban speaking about suffering caused by hubris. Marsyas challenges Apollo to piping contest, loses, gets flayed alive. Satrys mourning him cry, tears become the Marsyas river.

Question 20

Tereus Procne Philomena

Answer 20

Ovid speaking. Tereus and Procne marry, doomed wedding. Procne has Tereus bring her sister Philomena back from Athens. When she arrives, he rapes her and cuts out her tongue. Keeps her away from Procne. They reuinte eventually, Procne murders their child, feeds him to Tereus, then they turn into birds.

Question 21

Daedalus and Icarus

Answer 21

Ovid speaking. Daedalus builds wings to escape Crete. Son Icarus flies too high, wax melts, he falls into the sea,

Question 22

Daedalus and Perdix

Answer 22

Daedalus’s nephew Perdix is better at invention than him, so he throws Perdix off a cliff. As he falls, Pallas turns him into a bird.

Question 23

Orpheus and Eurydice

Answer 23

Ovid speaking. Orpheus’s new wife Eurydice killed by a snake. Orpheus travels to underworld to get her back. Sways them by music, they send Eurydice back with him but he can’t look back. When he’s close, he looks back and she’s gone. Turns to homosexuality.

Question 24

Ganymede

Answer 24

Orpheus singing songs here, Jupiter loves Ganymede, abducts him as an eagle, has him stay as his servant boy.

Question 25

Hyacinthus

Answer 25

Orpheus singing. Apollo loves Hyacinthus, accidentally kills him with discus toss. Apollo in mourning, turns him into the hyacinth flower.

Question 26

Pygmalion

Answer 26

Orpheus singing. Pygmalion is a great sculptor, carves a woman of marble, falls in love with it. Prays to Venus who brings her to life, Pygmalion marries her and they have a daughter.

Question 27

Myrrha

Answer 27

Orpheus singing. Grandson of Pygmalion. His daughter Myrrha falls in love with him, wants him badly but can’t have him. Nurse helps her seduce him and sleep with him. In her shame she turns into tree that produces myrrh.

Question 28

Death of Orpheus

Answer 28

Ovid speaking. Women want Ovid bc he’s so good at singing, wild Ciconian women chase him down and tears him apart in a frenzy. He is reunited with Eurydice. The women become trees.

Question 29

Midas

Answer 29

Ovid speaking. King Midas is a good host to Bacchus, who grants him a wish. He wants everything he touches to turn gold. Bacchus lets him take it back by plunging head into river, that river carries gold. He later judges a piping contest between Pan and Apollo, sides with Pan, Apollo gives him donkey ears.

Question 30

Cadmus

Answer 30

Ovid speaking.Cadmus follows sacred cow, founds city by sowing sacred serpents teeth. Men who arise enter civil war, all die but five.

Question 31

Actaeon

Answer 31

Ovid speaking. Cadmus’ son Actaeon is hunting, at noon goes to pure pool, accidentally sees Diana naked. She turns him into a deer, he gets killed by his own hunting dogs.

Question 32

Semele and Bacchus

Answer 32

Ovid speaking. Jupiter impregnates her. Juno mad, goes in form of hag, convinces Semele to have Jupiter take her in his true form. When he does, she incinerates, Jupiter saves the baby by stitching him into his thigh, baby is Bacchus.

Question 33

Tiresias

Answer 33

Ovid speaking. Jupiter and Juno argue over who enjoys sex more, men or women. Tiresias was both. He hit two snakes on the head and became a woman for 7 years, then found and hit them again to turn back. He says women enjoy it more, Juno blinds him.

Question 34

Narcissus and Echo

Answer 34

Ovid speaking. Echo covered for Jupiter’s affairs so Juno made sure she could only repeat last few words said to her. She pursues Narcissus, who falls in love with his own reflection. He rejects Echo, who turns into stone. He melts away in aguish of not reaching his lover when he realizes its him, turns into narcissus flower.

Question 35

Pentheus and Bacchus

Answer 35

Ovid speaking. Pentheus ignores Tiresias’ warning, scorns Bacchus on his arrival. Breaks up the Bacchanal and takes a follower prisoner. The prisoner Acoetes, convinces Penteus that he should see the rituals for himself. When he does, he gets torn apart by a crowd led by his mother Agave that was in a frenzy.

Question 36

Ino and Athamas

Answer 36

Ovid speaking. Ino is Semele’s sister, Juno is jealous of Semele and takes it out on her. Tisiphone, a harpie, is called in. She poisons and madden Athamas, who takes one of the children and smashes it against the floor. Ino runs off a cliff into the ocean and becomes a sea goddess along with child she saved. Those who mourned her became gulls.

Question 37

Transformation of Cadmus

Answer 37

Ovid speaking. Grieving Cadmus says that it might have been the serpent he killed that caused this, if so make me a serpent. He becomes a serpent, as does Harmonia, his wife.