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12 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of Metamorphoses
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Ecphrasis at beginning, metamorphosis at end
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no matter, ecphrasis of nature before civilization, God separated heaven from earth, water from land, air from skies, heaven from earth, theme of God bringing order from chaos, Man created to rule the world, Trope. GOLDEN AGE: trust, goodness, fruitfulness, SILVER AGE: working for a living, BRONZE AGE: wars broke out IRON AGE: nothing is sacred
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The Creation
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Golden Age
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Perfection, fruitfulness, peace, Saturn's rule, no need for judges, boats did not exist, no armor (no need),
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Silver Age
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Saturn dies, zeus takes rule, winter exists, springtime is shorter, seasons exist as we know it, laboring was now necessary, man needed to be self-sufficient,
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Iron Age
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modesty and truth and righteousness fled earth and in their place came trickery, slyness, plotting, swindling, violence. men lived on plunder. nobody was safe, not even from neighbor or brother. Justice, and Piety fled.
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Bronze Age
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quick to arm, not fully evil.
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survival of flood (Noah and Noah's wife), threw stones behind their back, and stones turn into people, in charge of repopulating the human race.
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Deucalian and Pyrrah
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Apollo, God of future, son, music, Daphne is a nymph, daughter of Peneus. Apollo slays python then tells cupid not to play with arrows cause he is too young, in retaliation cupid makes him fall in love with daphne, while making daphne repulsed by him. simile of hound chasing a rabbit. metamorphosis: daphne prays to change her form and becomes a laurel tree.
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Apollo and Daphne
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theme of light, archetype is a failed rite of passage, archetype of promise made by god to mortal, phaethon and phoebus of light and fire, schooner simile as phoebus loses control
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story of Phaethon
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oak tree and linden tree, Mercury adn
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Baucis and Philemon
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the loved becomes the lover
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Echo and Narcissus
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Thracian women turn into trees after they kill Orpheus
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Death of Orpheus
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