Ovid

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…

According to Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Envy lives in a place “forever without any fire, forever enveloped in darkness” (Ovid 2.764). This description seems appropriate for the way envy makes people feel: in the dark and lacking knowledge. Envy appears in most of the texts from this semester and often points out important feelings of characters that relate to either plot developments or themes of the work. In this paper I will discuss the role of envy in the works we have read this semester.…

Thresholds 1, 2, & 3: In threshold 1, 2, and 3 the beginning of the Greco-Roman universe was never truly empty, there was nothing but Chaos. Chaos as it was called, was described as darkness and disorder. According to Greco-Roman theory, there were no gods present in the beginning- though in time, a god of nature separated light and dark, soft and hard, weight from weightless, etc. The godly being separated those spaces with gods that we know of today. Then, 4 forces appeared fire, light, air…

The intangible love, by far the most powerful human emotion. And the only way someone with the greatest power on Earth can be truly harmed is by taking that power away from them. As seen in countless examples throughout this collection, those that lose love often end up destroyed by tragedy. Beasts materialize from the shadows where love once shined and pounce on the bereft. Bitterness, regret, furiosity, pain, and rage tear one’s mind apart. Those that lose the love of their life make radical…

Imagine you live in the medieval ages and you hear snarling and howling outside. What sort of beast would you first think of? Mythological creatures have been a big part of culture throughout the world. These beasts exist in Greek, Roman, Native American, and Norse mythology, just to name a few. Among these creatures are the werewolf. Almost every culture has some sort of werewolf story. The idea of werewolves is based around religion, gruesome murders, and stories from the people who saw or…

Geoffery’s father owned a winery and during his childhood he attended St. Paul’s Cathedral school which he studied the writings of Virgil and Ovid. Moving on to Geoffery Chaucer’s teenage years, in 1359 he went off to fight in the one hundred year war in France. In the war he was a P.O.W. and King Edward III paid his ransom to set him free. After King Edward III paid his ransom Geoffery…

As the famous Roman poet, Ovid, stated, "A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace" ("Ovid" 5). Competition is a necessary part of life and humans have the desire to outrank each other. John Knowles highlights these ideas in A Separate Peace with two of his characters, Gene Forrester and Phineas (Finny). Knowles describes Gene as an introvert and intellectual, whereas Phineas is an extrovert and athletic. Gene places himself in competition with Finny because…

Using the Charles Sturt University online library resource “primo search” with the option “journal articles” viewed through “Journals@Ovid” and “Ovid PsycARTICLES”. Part C Tulving, E., & Thompson, D. M., (1971). Retrieval processes in recognition memory: Effects of associative context. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 87(1), 116-124. doi: 10.1037/h0030186. Vakil, E., Hornik, C., & Levy…

that bring the boys extreme elation brings also affliction at what can never be; Harry feels a “powerful ache inside him, half joy, half terribly sadness” (Rowling, 209). Narcissus can never touch his image, he can never act upon the “burn[ing] love” (Ovid, 45) he feels for himself; Harry can never feel the touch of his parents, never experience the proximity of his family. While the similarities are indisputable, the tales diverge around a critical theme. At the beginning of Ovid’s…

The following electronic databases were searched through 4 June 2015: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Ovid MEDLINE. Unpublished data from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study and Swedish Two-County Trials were also included. 38 studies including 5 SRRs of 62 studies met inclusion…