Notes March 6

• visual representation of "precedent every action"
• The Spinners
• visual equivalent of our definition of myth
• referencing another painting
• Rape of Europa
• Titian
• holding onto the horn of bull
• painter referencing another painter who is referencing Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Commentary on Metamorphoses
• Link on side of my blog
• illustrate discussions for the rest of the semester
• Picture of Daedalus and Icarus
• W.H. Auden-  Musee des Beaux Arts 
• everything is contextual 
• Apotheosis
• the glorification of a subject to a divine level
• This pattern of theme and variations gives Ovid numerous means to tell his stories in inventive ways, weaving a complex web of interrelationships throughout the entire work. This thesis, suggested by Brooks Otis (Ovid as an Epic Poet, 1970), will organize (with some modification) the following discussion notes. 
• Goes through story by story and often has pictures accompanying the stories
• Apotheosis of Homer
• Painting
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•  Ceres and Persephone
• Muse Calliope- tell the importance of the gods- Hades steals Persephone from a meadow- Persephone feels bad for the flowers that she drops as she is abducted- 
• Cyane- protector of Persephone
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• Fredrick Turner
• Neural Lyre
• Oedipus
• violence within literature makes us feel better about our lives
• Aristotle
• our life can't possible be that bad
• plunges needles into his eyes
• "As flies to wanton boys, are we to th' gods, they kill us for their sport" Hamlet
• Catharsis
• purge, purification, cleansing
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