Metamorphoses

In the first passage of The Creation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he writes an ode to the gods, explaining the exact reason why he wrote the song to come. The Creation begins, “My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes,” (Ovid, Book 1, lines 1-4). He sings the song of the world as he knows it, and how it came to be, a song of changes. Ovid writes The Creation to explain how man was…

Metamorphoses Book 1: Ovid begins in prayer, seeking inspiration from the gods to give him the ability to accurately describe his works in Metamorphoses. He then goes into a detail description of how the earth is created, which contains many similarities to the book of Genesis. The god who created earth is unknown, but after its completion man is born of the clay to rule to world. Ovid next describes four ages of man. First being the golden age, which is a time of trust, goodness. Sadness…

Lavinia shows young Lucius, Marcus, and Titus a book. It is Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. Lavinia tries to turn it to a specific page, and Titus helps. They read the poem and realize that Lavinia is trying to tell them that she was raped. They asked who did so. Lavinia takes a staff in her mouth and writes Chiron and Demetrius’ names…

1) The two chronicles of the flood, Ovids metamorphoses and the Old Testaments told in similar form and they were in many ways similar and had several things in common. In both chronicles the gods believed that the world obtained to much violence, God said to noah that "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” so in both stories the gods decided to flood the world and rid it of all man kind…

Just like the common themes found in Iphis and Ianthe from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Galatea, there are some common themes from Galatea found in William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It. This common theme is the idea of a woman dressing up as a man and falling in love with another person. Even with these commonalities, there are many differences between these two plays in both plot and what each play says about gender, love, and marriage. Using this, the end of the play Galatea can be better…

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, approximately 860,000 Jews were saved by people whose job was or had voluntarily rescued Jews headed to concentration camps. These people risked their lives in order to save Jews even though it was illegal and could make them end up in jail or in the concentration camp too. However, in Ayşe Kulin’s Last Train to Istanbul, the heroes of the story risked their lives to help the Jewish people and this is an accurate portrayal of of history because they are…

properly from such a temptation. Once he or she gives into a desire, the person can fully see the consequences and adjust his or her wrongful behavior, so the person will be able to control that desire in a sensible manner. Plato’s Phaedrus, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Milton’s Paradise Lost depict fallen people, who had to learn to manage their desires. In these works, the characters fall due…

Ovid 's point of view provides a different depiction of Hesiod 's demonstration in the Book Metamorphoses as represented in his Theogony, a different depiction of the story The Creation as represented in his cosmogony, and a different depiction of the story The Four Ages, as represented in his cosmology. With all of these differences it is very interesting to find the similarities in the stories of Metamorphoses & Theogony told by the both Ovid and Hesiod. Both Hesiod and Ovid have similarities,…

or other river gods/nymphs. Nymphs usually had a “superhuman lifespan” and were basically immortal to a certain degree, but have been transformed by the gods if they acted in a way that they disapproved of, such as Diana and Calisto in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Another…

that believes existentialism is humanism. Nietzsche describes his theory of existentialism through multiple metamorphoses. He stresses in his passage that these transformations are not for everyone because not everyone will break away from the heard. The first is the “Camel” who is bogged down, spirit takes a lot on, and carry’s a heavy load (Evans Lecture). The next metamorphoses is the “Lion’, who is strong and starts fighting back. This is the stage where man starts creating his own…