Ovid

In “Deucalion and Pyrrha” the author, Ovid, is from 43 B.C. where most authors at the time write about Roman Gods, and Ovid was no exception from this. His writing is mostly about the gods from above, and an example of this is, “And Themis heard them, and gave this oracle: ‘Go from the temple, cover your heads, loosen your robes, and throw your mother” bones behind you!’” (Ovid, line 65-58). This excerpt involves a Roman god telling the main characters a cryptic…

The body is a form of art that extrapolates ones identity. It is through the identity of the body, that the society dictates the treatment of individuals. Ovid declares in his opening statement of the Metamorphoses, “to tell of bodies changed into new forms.” The body is consistently changing or shape-shifting, like the Greek characters, thus changing ones identity. And with the change of identity come the change of treatment of the self. Ovid’s proposition in his Metamorphoses, In the Flesh by…

was stricken dead (Ovid, 1 A.C.E.). Orpheus was deeply distraught over the loss of his love, so he devised a plan…

This paper analyzes a genre known as the “creation myths,” as told by a quartet of eastern Mediterranean cultures. These stories’ share a common outline and contain similar facets; especially, when looking at the mythology that explains the creation and establishment of the human race. The stories examined in this paper include, Sumerian/Babylonian’s When on High “Creation and Marduk” (composed circa 2000 BC), Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony and the Works and Days (composed circa 700 BC), Judaism…

In 1760, Oliver Goldsmith wrote, “Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” In other words, Goldsmith argues a person must make a mistake to know how to correct and accomplish a worthwhile task. When considering a person’s desires, a person might indulge in a desire due to the lack of understanding on how to refrain 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…

Everyone makes decisions and every decision has a consequence. A consequence is the aftermath of a choice. Consequences could be good, bad, or a little in between. These consequences happen because people are often affected by an others decisions. This causes others to take out their emotions on someone else. In the myth “The Rape of Proserpina”, Proserpina is raped and her mother, Ceres, hears about it and takes out her anger on Earth. In the next myth “Erysichthon”, Erysichthon decides to cut…

Claim: In the ancient greek story “Pyramus and Thisbe” by Ovid the gender roles are very basic and socially acceptable he makes the woman a damsel in distress and the male the “hero” who bravely sacrifices himself in an act of true love .Shakespeare transformed Pyramus and Thisbe in to Romeo and Juliet and gave it a whole new meaning satirizing on the gender roles ,making the female character independant and the male character tender hearted this occurs in the Elizabethan era when males…

every man” (Ovid: 122) was “fated to marry” (Ovid: 122). Despite her physical prowess over men, she could not escape the expectation of marriage. Instead of picking the first willing suitor, she claims, “you can win me…only if you can outrun me” (Ovid: 122). In a similar predicament, Penelope says that if a man can string Odysseus’ bow and shoot it through twelve axes, “he is the man [she] follow[s]” (Homer 2006: 426). Both of these women were willing to offer themselves as a “trophy” (Ovid:…

than anything in life. Christine de Pizan, fights to change these much too standard views of women in her book, The City of Ladies. In one particular part of the story, Christine de Pizan questions Lady Reason asking why so many great authors such as Ovid, “who is considered to be the greatest of all poets”(Christine de Pizan, Book 1, 20) for their time, made so many derogatory terms regarding all women in his writings. Christine de Pizan is using this story to express her opinion on the…

mythology belief as well, for example in the King James Bible (book of genesis 2:24) it says “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”. In my opinion this verse summarizes what Ovid does with the myth of love in the metamorphoses, when Ceyx and Alycone are both turned into a birds as it says in book XI “The gods changed both to a birds; the same strange fate they shared, and still their love endured, the bonds of wedlock…