Ovid

and Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid are excessively akin, by the thought that their love was doomed by fate from the start. Nevertheless the stories have vast differences, such as the details about the length of time that the young, naive couples knew each other. Both young couples, cursed with the destiny that their love would die, in one way or another. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Shakespeare 377). “The death of two young lovers was the cause” (Ovid 487). Romeo with Juliet,…

Theogony initially begins with conveying that the universe was in chaos, thereby already informing the reader that a solution is essential. Similarly, in Metamorphoses, Ovid describes the world as “featureless, —what men call chaos: undigested mass of crude, confused, and scumbled elements” (Ovid 3). However, chaos did not necessarily relate to disorder, but a dark, purposeless space from which the universe was created—a vital aspect that both authors outline. The gods mating with…

are seen to be so intricate that the human mind cannot grasp the complexity of their being. Today the gods of the ancient world are seen to have been ruthless and all powerful when compared to a human. On the contrary, the texts The Metamorphoses by Ovid, and Daphnis and Chloe by Longus show a different view of the gods then what they are known as today. The texts show that in ancient times the gods were viewed to be identical in nature to humans with the exception of their supernatural powers.…

creates the events throughout history on earth, and many situations within the myths in Tales from Ovid. In Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid, the impact of power on people is not only shown by people’s actions, but by the effect of their actions…

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…

In “Ovid, Rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” William Carroll’s understanding of Proteus and Valentine hinges on the premise that “the two gentlemen [are] in essence one man split into two parallel but distinct figures” (57), and within his thesis of their Ovidian objectification of women, I agree with that premise. However, when it comes to their views of love itself, Proteus’ aggression in his love for Silvia is more than a foil to Valentine’s courtly love for the same woman; it…

shaped by external forces – specifically the irresistible and transformative power of love – then perhaps he would be less culpable for his shifting loyalties and therefore as easily redeemable as the ending would imply. But both William Carroll in “Ovid, Rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and William Scott in “Proteus in Spenser and Shakespeare: The Lover’s Identity” recognize that the conflict is inherent to Proteus’ very characterization. Scott claims that Proteus’ actions are actually a…

Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid, was born March 20th, 43 B.C. in the town of Sulmo, Italy. At an early age, his father wanted him to pursue a career in law as a lawyer due to the family’s strong ties to the equestrian order. Ovid went on to Rome to study rhetoric and law; however, he was only able to acquire minor legal positions. Realizing that his passion did not lie in the political field, he turned to poetry. Focusing and improving on his poetry by writing full-time, most of his…

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 made and how he came to know the world, and himself, while also explaining how man and his world would be chaos without divinity. The main idea…

2015). Ovid was a Roman poet that focused on various Greek myths for a Roman audience, which included homosexuality, as a part of his major work, Metamorphoses. The idea of same-sex attraction and other types of sexuality were seen in many ancient civilizations, but with no concrete term to describe the relationships. Homosexuality was seen more, and more widely excepted, in the male population compared to the female population, in which there were not many records of this occurring. Ovid…