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Ovid

Ovid. THE Metamorphoses . Life of ovid. 20 BC- publishes first book of poetry . Born March 20, 43 BC. Statue of Ovid, Constanta, Romania (Ettore Ferrari, 1887). 8 AD- exiled by Augustus to Romania. 17 AD- Ovid dies in exile. Works of Ovid.

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Ovid

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  1. Ovid THE Metamorphoses

  2. Life of ovid • 20 BC- publishes first book of poetry Born March 20, 43 BC Statue of Ovid, Constanta, Romania (Ettore Ferrari, 1887) • 8 AD- exiled by Augustus to Romania • 17 AD- Ovid dies in exile

  3. Works of Ovid • Amores- love poems, often shorter, focus on a particular mistress • Heroides- letters from epic and mythic women to their husbands • MedicaminaFacieiFeminae- a comedic book about women’s cosmetics and beauty tips • ArsAmatoria- poems about how to make love (to people that you are not married to) • RemediaAmoris- the sequel to ArsAmatoria, about how to end relationships • Fasti- poems about feasts and festivals and the myths behind them • Metamorphoses- poem of epic length, compilation of different myths • Tristia- sorrowful poems about life in exile • Epistolae ex Ponto- letters written by Ovid to family in friends in Rome seeking to end his exile

  4. The Metamorphoses 15 books Tales within tales Creating of the world through glory of Rome Contrasts charming/violent, grotesque/hilarious No coherent plot Complex, flexible structure evident Each story has a transformation Structure, theme, meaning cohesive within books and individual myths Compilation of myths Fountain of Diana and Actaeon, Royal Palace at Caserta, Naples (Persico, Burnelli, Solari), late 18th century

  5. Oral traditions mentioned by Homer • Theogony (Birth of the Gods) by Hesiod • Tragedy- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides • Earlier and Later Greet poets: Pindar, Bacchylides, Apollonius of Rhodes, Callimachus • Roman model of combining myth and history: Livy, Catullus, Virgil • Ovid picks, alters and twists the original myths into non-canonical “modern” versions • For many myths, only Ovid’s version survives while the “real” version is lost Sources of Myth Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itys, Rubens, 1638

  6. Influence- Shakespeare By 1483, translated into all Romance languages and English Midsummer Night’s Dream – play within a play, Pyramus and Thisbe Star Crossed lover examples in Ovid inspire Romeo and Juliet Thisbe- John Waterhouse, 1909

  7. Influence- Later Poets Tales of lovers and wonders inspire courtly poets and Arthurian legends Influence style, themes of English poets Spenser, Milton Oscar Wilde- references to Metamorphoses and Fasti Narcissus- Caravaggio, 1599

  8. Apollo and Daphne Apollo and Daphne- Bernini, 1625 Apollo and Daphne, Antonio del Pollaiolo, 1470.

  9. Fall of Icarus Fall of Icarus- Jacob Peter Gowy, 1635 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Bruegel, 1558

  10. Pygmalion Made into play by George Bernard Shaw 1914 Film adaptation- 1938 Transformed into My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn 1964 Transformed (again) into Pretty Woman starring Julia Roberts, 1990 Inspired Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock 1958

  11. Orpheus Black Orpheus (1959) –set at Carnaval in Rio De Janeiro Orpheus Descending- play by Tennessee Williams, set in 1940s Mississippi made into film The Fugitive Kind in 1959 starring Marlon Brando Orphic Trilogy directed by Jean Cocteau The Blood of a Poet (1930) Orpheus (1950) Testament of Orpheus (1960)

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