Ovid

earth. While reading about the flood, the power of the gods is represented in the imagery of the drastic changes that the flood brought to the earth. A man “row[s] where once he plowed the earth in rows, while yet another sails above his grainfields” (Ovid, 27). These details of the earth after the flood show an alternate world, where water is above land instead of below it, a change that could only be made by a god. This transformation was made to protect all of the demigods such as Nymphs,…

The unfortunate story of Actaeon, as recorded by Ovid, unfolds as follows: As the sun nears its peak on a warm day, Actaeon calls a halt to his hunting party, using the break to wander through an unknown area of the forest. During his exploration, he stumbles across the hunting goddess Diana naked. As punishment for what Actaeon has seen, Diana transforms him into a stag and wills him away into the forest. Soon after his hunting dogs catch his new scent and unknowingly kill their previous owner,…

and Polyphemus. Galatea is a sea nymph who is the object of both Acis’ and Polyphemus’ affection. Galatea, however, wants nothing to do with Polyphemus, and although Galatea repeatedly shows her hatred for him, Polyphemus still blindly pursues her. Ovid could have chosen anyone to be the pursuer of Galatea, so why did he chose Polyphemus? The cyclops Polyphemus was chosen because he has one eye; this single eye symbolizes how people become single-minded when they are in love. In a prayer to…

text of "Pyramus and Thisbe" continues to state, “Mulberries always turn black as they ripen.” Here, as before, “always” relays ideas of indefinite continuity, and one typically associates “black” with connotations of mourning. This, in turn, allows Ovid to develop a hopeless tone in relation to the future, as he concentrates upon mourning the loss of Pyramus and Thisbe rather than upon repeating their mistakes. On the contrary, the prologue of “Romeo and Juliet” states, “What here shall miss,…

Love. Tragedy. How can two such different topics be put in the same story? Tragedy is the crux of Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was greatly inspired by Ovid to write the play. Shakespeare used similarities and differences through the play to show how Ovid had inspired him. He demonstrates the similarities and differences through character, plot, and conflict of each story.There is a very strong correlation between the play and poem. Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet off…

in the movie Shrek, Shrek had a desire for Princess Fiona so badly that he did anything and everything to be with her. Well, when I think about love and what a person would do for love two stories come to mind, and they are "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These characters in the story have many obstacles, barriers, and limitation that tried to challenge the love between two people. To begin with,"Pyramus and Thisbe" and Romeo and Juliet both had a…

love most? That’s the kind of decisions that both Ovid and Shakespeare write about in “Pyramus and Thisbe” and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In the stories, Thisbe and Juliet are both faced with the same question, and they both choose the same fate. Although Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is based off of Ovid’s poem, “Pyramus and Thisbe” both portray the scenes differently, and in a way, better than one another. While Ovid writes about the plot, characters, and conflict…

oppression brought by the Augustan Principate encouraged writers to utilize different literary devices to express their political ideologies about current events and the future of Rome. In this paper I will discuss how Augustan writers, Virgil and Ovid, utilized animal anthropomorphism as means of political expression in order to criticize Rome’s broken and divided state. Furthermore, I will discuss the use of anthropomorphism in Pliny the Elder’s The Natural History, who was writing years after…

follows a pair of star-crossed lovers who belong to feuding houses. Shakespeare was inspired by another tragic love story known as “Pyramus and Thisbe”, a narrative poem written by the Roman poet Ovid, which took place in Babylon. The poem follows lovers whose families forbid their love. Although the…

in the movie Shrek, Shrek had a desire for Princess Fiona so deeply that he did anything and everything to be with her. Well, when I think about love and what a person would do for love two stories come to mind, and they are "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These characters in the story have many obstacles, barriers, and limitation that tried to challenge the love between two people. To begin with,"Pyramus and Thisbe" and Romeo and Juliet both had a…