Ovid Metamorphoses - Part I

Background

• Two great Roman poets
  • Virgil (70 - 19 B.C.)
  • Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)
• Ovid and Augustus
  • The new Empire
  • Rome's sexual mores
  • Ovid's Art of Love
  • The two Julia(s)
  • A banning and exile

Archetypes of Love

• Lustful Love
  • Salmacis lust for Hermaphroditus
    • Virgin archetype in the male manifestation
    • Seduction's lust for innocence
  • Echo and Narcissus
    • Narcissistic personality
    • Echo personality
• Jealous Love
  • Aglauros vs. Herse
    • "Left chamber"
    • Depiction of Minerva (Athena)
    • Depiction of Envy
  • Clytie vs. Leucothoe
  • Vulcan vs. Mars
  • Juno vs. Io, Semele, and Europa
    • Return of "Medea's complaint"
    • Phallic symbols and Jove
    • Oaths
• Unreciprocated Love
  • Apollo and Daphne
    • Cupid as imp
    • The forbidden
  • Medusa and Neptune
    • Beyond the story - rape
    • Turning men to "…stone"
• Tragic Love
  • Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Phaethon's Ride

Rational vs. Irrational Forces

• Pentheus vs. Bacchus
  • Irrational, passionate, supernatural themes
    • Acoetes in prison
    • Thyrsus - Phallic magic wand
    • Bacchanal states of ecstasy
  • Acoetes as Christ
    • In prison, before Pilate
    • A trial
    • Fisherman
  • Dismemberment - death and rebirth symbolism of initiation
• Minyas' Daughters vs. Bacchus

Hero Archetype

• Perseus
  • Killed (over came) Medusa
  • Rescued Andromeda
• Cadmus
  • Overcame serpent (Beast archetype)
  • Unified tribes and founded Thebes

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter