Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Metamorphoses
- Homer
- 3-4 - Theban Cycle
- Narcissus + Echo
- 12-15 - Aeneid
- Focus on marginal characters
- Proem
- 'deducite'
- Cf Catullus
- Continuity
- O is eternal poet
- Narrators
- Characters
- Biases
- Ideologies
- Change
- Mixed audiences
- Tapestry of Epyllia
- Themes
- Crime/Punishment
- Artists
- The Battlefield
- Violence not on it
- Cf Odyssey
- Nestor
- Battle at wedding
- Martial prowess not everything
- Phineus + kleos
- Heroes
- Theseus
- Must listen
- Achilles
- Victory over Cygnus
- Effeminacy
- Women
- Impinge on men
- Eg boar hunt
- Not all sexual victims
- But disaster
- Words (metis)
- Cf Jason/Odysseus
- Eg Medea
- Artists
- Challenging power
- Skill is no substitute
- Aristeia
- Work of art
- Ovid only one unscathed
- Fate?
- Rumour
- tradition is self-serving
- Not all stories should be believed
- Aeneid 4
- Homer = rumours from soldiers
- O's narrators are unreliable
- Nestor
- Gods
- Sexual violence
- Comic
- Eg Apollo/Jupiter
- Outdoors
- Beauty of landscape
- Jupiter
- Excessive anger
- Evaluate justice
- Cf Iliad
- Link with Augustus
- 'Palatine'
- Death of Caesar simile
- Isis
- Compassionate
- Contests
- Pierides vs Muses
- Gigantomachy
- Short vs long
- Dis hit by cupid
- Cf Dido/Medea
- Magpies
- Arachne vs Minerva
- Closer
- Cf Jason's cloak/bed cover
- Symmetry vs asymmetry
- Classic vs neoteric
- Audience judge
- Song of Orpheus
- Argonaut
- Music drowned out Sirens
- Tragedy of Virgil's Orpheus
- Ring composition
- Ends with council of gods