Io's story is interrupted by the story of Mercury and Argus. All of the following are true EXCEPT Juno covers the earth with a veil of darkness to keep Jupiter (Jove) from escaping with his lover. Rape/attempted rape The story of Io begins on pp. It's not really funny matter, but to include it, he makes it ridiculous. Ovid's solution is to make the offending gods into buffoons. Peneus' best idea on how to save his daughter is to turn her into a tree. What do you do with objectionable myths? Notice how ridiculous the details are. He is in the post-war generation, right after Vergil. Here we get a sense of Ovid's style and approach. This is at its heart a disturbing myth - and one of many. When Apollo goes on to her about how passionately he desires her, Daphne takes off fleeing.Īpollo ends up chasing Daphne through the woods.ĭaphne is saved by turning into a laurel tree.Īpollo still tries to make out with Daphne after she has been transformed.Īpollo makes the laurel tree his own tree and the wreath that will go on all of his things. Daphne is close to Diana and asks her father, the river god Peneus to let her remain ever virgin. Gross! The dude is making out with a tree - and she still recoils from him. She calls on her father Peneus when she reaches his banks. Which of the following details about this myth are true.

14-18 we see the myth of Daphne and Apollo. 13, we hear that this same sort of creation of people and animals from the elements by spontaneous generation can be observed in the spring flooding of the Nile On pp. False When Deucalion and Pyrrha are curiously told to repopulate the earth with people and animals by hurling their mother's bones over their shoulders, they cast stones over their shoulders In the second paragraph on p. 10 when Jupiter sees that one man and one woman - Deucalion and Pyrrha - have survived, he is just as angry as Enlil was in the Epic of Gilgamesh when he saw that Utnapishtim had survived his flood. Jupiter's Plan B is to destroy humanity with a flood On p. 7-8 we learn that Lycaon's crime was trying to kill a disguised Jupiter What keeps Jupiter from destroying humanity with lightning bolts? He remembered a prophecy of the Fates that flames would burn the earth and heavens together. Isn't this a little overkill? Some puny mortal threatened Jupiter, and they're all upset? True On pp. False When Jupiter tells the gods of Lycaon's crime, they are as upset as when the Romans learned of Caesar's assassination.

Notice gods of the 'common sort' live in the suburbs, which in Roman times were filthy, overcrowded, poor sections of the city. 6, along the approach to Jupiter's palace are the homes of all the gods, all of which are splendid and mansion-like.

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