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Ovid – Week 4

Ovid – Week 4. Minyas – King of Orchomenos in Northern Boeotia, north of Thebes Daughters of Minyas resisted worship of Bacchus and spent his holiday telling stories – mainly stories from the East. Pyramus & Thisbe - Babylon Mars & Venus Sun god & Leucothoe - Persia

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Ovid – Week 4

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  1. Ovid – Week 4 Minyas – King of Orchomenos in Northern Boeotia, north of Thebes Daughters of Minyas resisted worship of Bacchus and spent his holiday telling stories – mainly stories from the East. Pyramus & Thisbe - Babylon Mars & Venus Sun god & Leucothoe - Persia Salmacis & Hermaphroditus - Halicarnassus

  2. Mulberry Pyramus & Thisbe Cf. Midsummer Night’s Dream

  3. Mars & Venus Botticelli

  4. Aphrodite and Ares

  5. Mars and Venus caught

  6. What happened to Leucothoe? Clytie

  7. Salmacis & Hermaphroditus

  8. Juno’s trip to the Underworld Over the River Styx Boatman Charon who rows dead across Palace of Dis (another name for Pluto or Hades) Cerberus – 3-headed dog 5 Sinners Tityos – spread over 9 acres Tantalus – suspended in water he can’t drink in sight of grapes he can’t touch Sisyphus – repeatedly rolls a rock up a hill, after which it rolls back down Ixion – spread on a fiery wheel that rolls around Hades Danaids (group) – trying to carry water in sieves

  9. Tantalus

  10. Ixion

  11. Danaids

  12. Lepidoptera Nymphilidae Tisiphone

  13. Tisiphone brings madness on Athamas and Ino in Thebes

  14. Cadmus and Harmonia

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