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The Metamorphoses

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The Metamorphoses
  1. Homer
    1. 3-4 - Theban Cycle
      1. Narcissus + Echo
      2. 12-15 - Aeneid
        1. Focus on marginal characters
        2. Proem
          1. 'deducite'
            1. Cf Catullus
              1. Continuity
                1. O is eternal poet
            2. Narrators
              1. Characters
                1. Biases
                  1. Ideologies
                    1. Change
                    2. Mixed audiences
                      1. Tapestry of Epyllia
                      2. Themes
                        1. Crime/Punishment
                          1. Artists
                          2. The Battlefield
                            1. Violence not on it
                              1. Cf Odyssey
                              2. Nestor
                                1. Battle at wedding
                                2. Martial prowess not everything
                                  1. Phineus + kleos
                                3. Heroes
                                  1. Theseus
                                    1. Must listen
                                    2. Achilles
                                      1. Victory over Cygnus
                                        1. Effeminacy
                                        2. Women
                                          1. Impinge on men
                                            1. Eg boar hunt
                                            2. Not all sexual victims
                                              1. But disaster
                                              2. Words (metis)
                                                1. Cf Jason/Odysseus
                                                  1. Eg Medea
                                                2. Artists
                                                  1. Challenging power
                                                    1. Skill is no substitute
                                                    2. Aristeia
                                                      1. Work of art
                                                      2. Ovid only one unscathed
                                                    3. Fate?
                                                      1. Rumour
                                                        1. tradition is self-serving
                                                          1. Not all stories should be believed
                                                          2. Aeneid 4
                                                            1. Homer = rumours from soldiers
                                                              1. O's narrators are unreliable
                                                                1. Nestor
                                                          3. Gods
                                                            1. Sexual violence
                                                              1. Comic
                                                                1. Eg Apollo/Jupiter
                                                                2. Outdoors
                                                                  1. Beauty of landscape
                                                                3. Jupiter
                                                                  1. Excessive anger
                                                                    1. Evaluate justice
                                                                    2. Cf Iliad
                                                                      1. Link with Augustus
                                                                        1. 'Palatine'
                                                                          1. Death of Caesar simile
                                                                        2. Isis
                                                                          1. Compassionate
                                                                        3. Contests
                                                                          1. Pierides vs Muses
                                                                            1. Gigantomachy
                                                                              1. Short vs long
                                                                                1. Dis hit by cupid
                                                                                  1. Cf Dido/Medea
                                                                                  2. Magpies
                                                                                  3. Arachne vs Minerva
                                                                                    1. Closer
                                                                                      1. Cf Jason's cloak/bed cover
                                                                                        1. Symmetry vs asymmetry
                                                                                          1. Classic vs neoteric
                                                                                            1. Audience judge
                                                                                          2. Song of Orpheus
                                                                                            1. Argonaut
                                                                                              1. Music drowned out Sirens
                                                                                              2. Tragedy of Virgil's Orpheus
                                                                                              3. Ring composition
                                                                                                1. Ends with council of gods
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