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Where does Ovid get the idea of an ekphrasis describing a scene depicted on doors?
From the Aeneid, when Aeneas visits Cumae and sees a temple on the doors of which Daedalus had portrayed his own sad history in Book 6.
Who is Mulciber?
Vulcan - the softener.
Where else does Proteus appear in literature?
In the Georgics. He keeps changing forms until Aristaeus conquers him in Book 4.
Why is it appropriate for the 12 signs of the zodiac to be depicted on the palace of the Sun?
The zodiac is the path through the heavens that the sun seems to traverse in its annual course.
Who is Tethys?
The wife of the Ocean, and a metonym for the sea.
Is there a contrast between the brevity allotted to the request of Phaethon, and the length allowed for the analysis of the reaction to the request?
YES - EFFECTIVE :)
Why is the Sun's warning that Phaethon will pass through several signs not actually true?
The sun acc remains motionless on the spinning zodiac
What was the bull (zodiac sign) responsible for? Who was the Nemean lion?
Carrying off Europa. The one killed by Heracles in the 1st of his famous Labours.
Where else is the sun's chariot described as golden?
In the Homeric Hymns.
chrysolithi
golden stones
Who is Lucifer? Where is he described in Homer?
The morning star. The Odyssey (Book 13).
Arcton
Bear = North
What is the coiled snake?
One of the northern constellations - the snake is coiled around the Bears
Take my advice and not my chariot - example of what?
Zeugma
Who releases the sun at dawn?
The sea - image unknown to us before Ovid
What does Virgil fantasise about the Scorpio?
Georg 1.33 He will retract his claws to make way for a new constellation devoted to Augustus.
Who is Ovid echoing in his catalogue of mountains?
Clytemnestra, who describes the succession of signal pyres blazing from mountain tops to announce the end of the Trojan War in Aeschylus.
Who are the Virgins? Who else addresses them?
The Muses who live on mount Helicon, where Hesiod is from! He addresses them at the opening of the Theogony.
Does anyone else attribute the Ethopians' dark skin to Phaethon's ride?
No - seems to be an Ovidian invention
When will Xanthus burn again?
In the battle with Achilles in the Iliad (Book 21)
Who else explores the reason for the great mystery of the Nile's source?
Herodotus
Who does O end his list of rivers with the Tiber
To give it a "patriotic Virgilian flourish"
Who was Nereus?
father of the Nereids (one of them being Thetis)
Where does Herodotus say amber comes from?
the Eridanus
Where else does Ovid describe men being turned into swans, like Cycnus?
Book 7 and 12.
"They say the nymphs did sense it" - why does Ovid make this comment?
It undermines any solemnity the passage might seem to have been endowed with.
"overcome by her brother's rays" - what does this mean?
Phoebus is Diana's brother.
Was it an Ovidian invention to include the bathing scene in the Callisto story?
Yes - it seems so. It is usually associated with Actaeon and Tiresias, found in Callimachus Hymn 5
Parrhasis
Arcadian (Callisto) - this is used as a synonym for Arcadian in Aeneid 8.
How does Ovid often play with the supplication scene? Who in the Aeneid looks up with pleading eyes because she cannot life her arms?
He likes the idea of would-be suppliants unable to raise their arms in several humorous or grotesque contexts. Cassandra in Book 2.
Where do the stories about the Raven and the Crow appear together in another source?
Callimachus' now largely lost Hecale
How did the geese save the Capitol?
The Gauls couldn't storm the Capitol because of the timely cackling of the Sacred Geese - told in Livy Book 5.
Larissaean
Thessalian
How does Apollodorus explain Erichthonius' origins (the baby put in a basket)?
Hephaestus was lusting after Athena and dropped some of his cum on her leg as she ran away. She wiped it away in disgust and the boy sprung up. She entrusted him to the daughters of Cecrops to look after
Actaean
Athenian
How is Cecrops 2 formed?
He was half snake and half man
Who is the bird of the night the raven says he has been replaced with?
The owl.
Do we hear the story about the girl turning into a crow before Ovid?
No.
What are rich suitors a standard element of?
Amatory elegy
The story of Nyctimene defiling her father's bed is a precursor to what?
The theme of incest Ovid explores in the tale of Babylis (9) and Myrrha (10.
Where else are Apollo's skills useless to him?
When he is chasing Daphne in Book 1.
Where does Ovid get the idea for the simile of a female heifer wailing when her calf is killed?
Lucretius 2 - the heifer looks in vain for her sacrificed calf
Who does Homer say Aesculapius is taught by?
Chiron - like Ovid!
Who wrote a play about Chiron's daughter turning into a mare (now just in fragments)?
Euripides
oneri... honore - example of what?
word play
What is the snake blood Chiron's daughter says he will eventually be tormented with? What would she have mentioned if she was allowed?
The Lernaean hydra with whose blood Hercules' arrows were smeared (Heracles needs to give his immortality to Prometheus). His elevation to the stars.
Who does Chiron's daughter sound a bit like?
Cassandra in the Agamemnon
Where is the story of the man Battus found? Where does he get the idea of Battus turning into a rock?
the Homeric Hymns (4). In a lost Hesiodic work.
O delphic one - example of what?
Apostrophe
an unequal set of pipes with seven reeds - example of what?
Transferred epithet - reeds are unequal, not pipe!
Who is the Battus the servant of?
Neleus - father of Nestor - as in Iliad Nestor
In what way was the touch-stone a "tell-tale" stone?
It could be used to unmask bask metals that were supposedly gold.
Caducifer
staff bearer = Mercury
Munychian - is this found elsewhere?
Athenian - no, an Ovidian invention bc Munychia was a part of the Piraeus.
cultique arbusta Lycei. - why is this an anachronism?
This was the garden outside Athens where Aristotle was to set up his school. Ovid is having a laff here.
What was the stereotype of the kite in antiquity?
He was a thief!
Where might Ovid have got his inspo for Envy?
Virgil's description of Rumour in Book 4.
Who does Virgil describe as "virago," a manly maid?
Juturna.