how Ovid connects all the sto
Ovid Metamorpheses 6-7 now we move into realms of the heroes -first story is the story of Arachne -how Ovid connects all the stories -end of book 5, Minerva asked about magpies and shit, -so book 5 ends with the contest of the arts -book 6 begins with the weaving contest, Arachne so good at it she considers herself better than the Gods. -the motif is divine anger here, the 1st half of book 6 -Niobe also angers God, -Marsyas thinks hes better flute player than Apollo arachne and minerva -the way she weaves is similar to way to the cosmos creation -this globe has to be formed and fashioned and the thread that has to be spung is similar to how creator created the universe in book 1 -the creator of universe is artist, like the illusion to shield of achilles and now we have Arachne as creative figure -significance: something polish something fine. Remember the proeum to metamorpheses, the continuous song, the epic, the big narrative, to lead , to spin in a fine polished way. -Poitlomelogical, means what does it say about the poem. You got big epic of Ovid vs Callmichaic Arachne's fine art, specialzed. -so look at the tapestry of minerva, it's totally symmetrical, classical, in middle you get the contest between minerva vs neptune, and then in four corners you got women who stupidly challenged the Gods and turned into things, then you got olive branch (peace) wrappin around. -Arachne's tapestry different from Minerva = stands for eroticness of females, of flux, of changes, of chaos. it is the Callimichean way of writiing. Remember the song of the Pierides, also showed that Gods in an undesirable state turning into animals out of fear of giants. In the Arachne's tapestry, Gods turn into animals out of sexual lust.
-also what distinguishes the 2 tapestries, in case of minerva's weaving, all the Gods easly identifiable through the symbols of the Gods, but for arachne, the Gods are not easily identifiale, its just part of the fluidity, the flux. -Ovid describes Arachne representing Europa and the Bulls. Significance of this is that first of all, it's not a real bull, it's just Zeus transforming himself to a bull. Second is that the tapestry's fashioned in so real that you think its real. The taspos (when you think its so well done its like real bull/real zeus) -to summarize we can say Minerva art = ordered epic poetry -Arachne = small subverting big classical literature, flux changing chaotic kind of poetry -Minerva and Arachne as transition point, departing from God (minerva) to the world of the humans heroes (arachne's story) Death of Niobe's Children -she knew of Arachne, also challenged to goddess, -Niobe boasting about her 14 children, 7 boys 7 girls, that she's much better, thus punished by Apollo and Diana. -hybris = do something that doesnt become of you, that you think you're more important than you really are. -Niobe's hybristic behaviours punished as mentioned.... -when the 7 boys dead, she was still ok, then the 7 girls die, then she gets super sad. -she's learned her lesson, grieves and regrets having been sooo hybristic, she soooo grieved she turnes into a stone. -Latona (mom of Apollo and Artemis) -once this happens to Niobe, people thought and recalled something similar happened (this is how ovid can use this narrative to bring up next story smoothly) Latona and Lycian peasants -lycian says that once about a time leto was hoing arond with diana and apollo. Even after she gave birth, she was still wandering about, now in Lycia, she's thirsty and sees some pond and asks to take a sip of water, she asks permission of the peasants. -these nasty peasants are like "nah min... fuck you" and even jump into pond
makin it muddy. -Latona even says she wants to drink the pure spring untainted... -these peasants, nasty creatures, they talk and shout and insult latona. -Latona gets real pissed off, turns them into frogs cause they are making such noises since frogs are noisy creatures. -so pure spring tiny fountain = calamachhean poetry -big muddy river = stands for epic tradition: loud and noisy and not refined. Quamvis sint sub aqua, sub aqua maledicere temptant = most famous line of this scene...it's in latin, it sounds like frogs when you say it... it says 'even when you under water, they still try to insult' (about the frog) -otematoprag = i.e. meow (about cat).. in this case its so genius, replicating sound of frog just by saying the sentence.. Marsyas story -what hapened here is pallas minerva invented the flute, she saw her reflection and that her cheeks were blown up and ugly. She throws away the flue, Marsyas the satyr plays it and gets really good and challenges Apollo sayin hes better. -Apollos declared the winner, and as punishment of Mrsyas, his skin gets teared off.. the flaying of Marsyas. -Ovid's description of the scene was quite nasty, quite detailed and quite gruesome, but Ovid loves to revel in the cruelty. He likes to take it over the top in his cruelty, prof says it gets very funny cause its so ridiculous. Transitional Moment: (Pelops)... where Ovid says let's go back to the story of Niobe, and the only person to really mourn her was Pelops -Pelops = brother of niobe, they are both children of Tantalaus. -Tantalaus took his son pelops, cut him into various pieces, served them to the Gods, the Gods noticed what they were eating, put him back together, but the shoulder was missing, this was Demeter who ate the shoulder piece cause she was at the time super sad about Persephone kidnaped. -Pelops has ivory shoulders for that reason. .. anyways transition to human world... Tereus, Procne, and Philomela
-all ended up transformed to bird -statistical analysis found out that this transformation is told most popular in ancient texts outside of the Metamorphesus -so in this story, what's going on? -Tereus the king a Thracian -he marries daughter of some King -that daughter is Procne -so Philomela comes and visits Procne, but when Tereus sees Philomela, he is totally horny. -he actually really wants to get philomela on his ship to rape her, and he does rape her in the ship's cabin -Tereus cuts out her tongue -this is one of those terribly gruesome Ovid scenes -he keeps raping Philomela, and Procne doesnt know what's going on. -Philomela weaves her story and sends it to Procne. Procne finds out and plots revenege against Tereus. -they take Tereus' son, cuts him to pieces and feeds to Tereus. -Tereus has the meat, then told its his son, he chases them, they are transformed into birds, one into swallow, one into nightngale, Tereus turns into hoopoe (some bulshit) next myth -2 sons, sons of boreias, they have wings, this gives transition to next one.-these 2 guys take part in some other shit in next book, taking part in expediiton of the Aego Book 7 Medea is first part and Theseis is second part -theseis unites book 7 and 8 and all the way into book 9. -within story of theseis, you hear about Minos, the creator of the labyrinth, then later the Cephalus and Procris
Helle and Phrixus riding the Golden Ram -the most famous text in this context is the Apolnois - hellinstic poet livin same time as callimachus. 3rd century BC wrote an epic in style that is very refined full of aerodyct illusion, the epic is very detailed with obscure little myths. Basically you got Jason sent out to get the Golden Fleece. Reemmeber Athamas, he was in love with some chick before named Nephele, who was named Helle and Phrixus, but then Ino the evil stepmother was jealous of them, she makes up story that they have to be sacrificed. -Nephele saves them by haqving a lam with golden wool that can fly, but Helle cant hold on, drops into the sea at the Hellespond according to this myth. -now we`ve got phrixus in some place, and the fleece hangin over some tree, guarded by a dragon -years later, peles tells Jason to get the fleece hoping he`d be killed. -that`s why Jason set out to get this fleece, they then cross meditterean. -Jason has to past some texts to get fleece. -medea the princess fell in love, who also a witch, and she givesw him magical herbs that make him invulnerable. -so Jason can perform the teeth of a dragon which arise out of these seeds that are humans who abou tto kill jason, then jason throws the stone at field and they fight. -Medea puts the dragon to asleep, and then jason can get the fleece, leave and travels back to Greece. -medea betrayed family and flees with Jason loves him dearly, but won`t last loong -once they get back to greece, medea rejevnates Aeson (jason`s old brother), and bacchus thinks its so cool and asks her to do same for nurses of bacchus. -Medea tricks Pelias daughter that can be doen for pelias too, but tricks them saying pelias first needs to be cut at throat and such, the daugthers does it, and then medea just laughs and leaves him to die. Page 156: famous story associated with medea is murder of her children which is only couple of lines. -jason falls in love with some princess, better than the marriage with barbarian Medea.
-Medea tries to poison the princess, and she kills her own children to anger Jason. That;s fucked up. -she then flees on her chariot drawn by winged dragons from Jason -she goes to Athens and marreis Aegeus, father of theseus. -Theseus is not there cause he grew up with mom. -his mom is Aethra -theseus grows up outsdie athens, and as token of recognition, he owns sword of his fathr, he now has to make his way back to athens, he slays buncha bandits and monsters that were cursed to the attic landscape on way -Theseus is foundin hero of athens. -don`t learn all specific theseus myths, just know he civilizes the landscape -Medea wants to rid of Theseus cause threatening throne. -she gives hiim tasks then tries to poison him, but just as Theseus about to take poison, Aegeus recognizes sword and doesnt let him die. Minos-frame -minos king of ctete, angry at athens cause aegeus killed his son, hes lookin for allies vs Athens -Aeceus another king, he refuses to help minos cause they ally of Athens -the conflict between Athens and Crete carry on to next book -Cephalus the athenian ambassador, asks Aeacus for help vs Crete, he says ok since they allied. -Cephalus asks where all nice young ppl in the city is, Aecus says sad cause theyall died in the play, the whole population died out -so how does Aeacus get population backÉ -there`s some ants -Myrimidons = ants people. -Zeus helps Aeacus transforms ants into the myrimidon people to repopulate his city. -Cephalus is asked about his javelon, and what great spear he has there.
-Cephalus tells the story of Cephalus and Procris. Cephalus and Procris -one day, aurora kidnaps Cephalus cause hes so cute and wants to have sex with him -Cephalus says hes faithful though, his faithfulness tested, he returns to Procris disguised and tries to test procris`fedality. -Procris resists advances but eventually she caves, and the Cephalus goes `haaaah... you are unfaithful, u willing to cheat with disguised me`. -so procros angry and leaves, lives with Diana, and then eventualy they reconcile, and she gives him the magical javelin and a great hunting dog. -the dog chases a bad beast, both turned into stones.... (some lil inserted myth) -what`s really tragic is that Cephalus likes to hunt, hes sweaty and shit, its breezy and its nice, he calls out ``airrrr```. -osmeone hears that and thinks hes having affair with air -he is still like shouting euphircally the aiirrrrrr. -then some shit happens, he fires his javelin at her, and always hit. -shes dying, he tries to tell his mistakes, but too bad, shes about to die. thus end lecture and book 7
-also what distinguishes the 2 tapestries, in case of minerva's weaving, all the Gods easly identifiable through the symbols of the Gods, but for arachne, the Gods are not easily identifiale, its just part of the fluidity, the flux. -Ovid describes Arachne representing Europa and the Bulls. Significance of this is that first of all, it's not a real bull, it's just Zeus transforming himself to a bull. Second is that the tapestry's fashioned in so real that you think its real. The taspos (when you think its so well done its like real bull/real zeus) -to summarize we can say Minerva art = ordered epic poetry -Arachne = small subverting big classical literature, flux changing chaotic kind of poetry -Minerva and Arachne as transition point, departing from God (minerva) to the world of the humans heroes (arachne's story) Death of Niobe's Children -she knew of Arachne, also challenged to goddess, -Niobe boasting about her 14 children, 7 boys 7 girls, that she's much better, thus punished by Apollo and Diana. -hybris = do something that doesnt become of you, that you think you're more important than you really are. -Niobe's hybristic behaviours punished as mentioned.... -when the 7 boys dead, she was still ok, then the 7 girls die, then she gets super sad. -she's learned her lesson, grieves and regrets having been sooo hybristic, she soooo grieved she turnes into a stone. -Latona (mom of Apollo and Artemis) -once this happens to Niobe, people thought and recalled something similar happened (this is how ovid can use this narrative to bring up next story smoothly) Latona and Lycian peasants -lycian says that once about a time leto was hoing arond with diana and apollo. Even after she gave birth, she was still wandering about, now in Lycia, she's thirsty and sees some pond and asks to take a sip of water, she asks permission of the peasants. -these nasty peasants are like "nah min... fuck you" and even jump into pond
makin it muddy. -Latona even says she wants to drink the pure spring untainted... -these peasants, nasty creatures, they talk and shout and insult latona. -Latona gets real pissed off, turns them into frogs cause they are making such noises since frogs are noisy creatures. -so pure spring tiny fountain = calamachhean poetry -big muddy river = stands for epic tradition: loud and noisy and not refined. Quamvis sint sub aqua, sub aqua maledicere temptant = most famous line of this scene...it's in latin, it sounds like frogs when you say it... it says 'even when you under water, they still try to insult' (about the frog) -otematoprag = i.e. meow (about cat).. in this case its so genius, replicating sound of frog just by saying the sentence.. Marsyas story -what hapened here is pallas minerva invented the flute, she saw her reflection and that her cheeks were blown up and ugly. She throws away the flue, Marsyas the satyr plays it and gets really good and challenges Apollo sayin hes better. -Apollos declared the winner, and as punishment of Mrsyas, his skin gets teared off.. the flaying of Marsyas. -Ovid's description of the scene was quite nasty, quite detailed and quite gruesome, but Ovid loves to revel in the cruelty. He likes to take it over the top in his cruelty, prof says it gets very funny cause its so ridiculous. Transitional Moment: (Pelops)... where Ovid says let's go back to the story of Niobe, and the only person to really mourn her was Pelops -Pelops = brother of niobe, they are both children of Tantalaus. -Tantalaus took his son pelops, cut him into various pieces, served them to the Gods, the Gods noticed what they were eating, put him back together, but the shoulder was missing, this was Demeter who ate the shoulder piece cause she was at the time super sad about Persephone kidnaped. -Pelops has ivory shoulders for that reason. .. anyways transition to human world... Tereus, Procne, and Philomela
-all ended up transformed to bird -statistical analysis found out that this transformation is told most popular in ancient texts outside of the Metamorphesus -so in this story, what's going on? -Tereus the king a Thracian -he marries daughter of some King -that daughter is Procne -so Philomela comes and visits Procne, but when Tereus sees Philomela, he is totally horny. -he actually really wants to get philomela on his ship to rape her, and he does rape her in the ship's cabin -Tereus cuts out her tongue -this is one of those terribly gruesome Ovid scenes -he keeps raping Philomela, and Procne doesnt know what's going on. -Philomela weaves her story and sends it to Procne. Procne finds out and plots revenege against Tereus. -they take Tereus' son, cuts him to pieces and feeds to Tereus. -Tereus has the meat, then told its his son, he chases them, they are transformed into birds, one into swallow, one into nightngale, Tereus turns into hoopoe (some bulshit) next myth -2 sons, sons of boreias, they have wings, this gives transition to next one.-these 2 guys take part in some other shit in next book, taking part in expediiton of the Aego Book 7 Medea is first part and Theseis is second part -theseis unites book 7 and 8 and all the way into book 9. -within story of theseis, you hear about Minos, the creator of the labyrinth, then later the Cephalus and Procris
Helle and Phrixus riding the Golden Ram -the most famous text in this context is the Apolnois - hellinstic poet livin same time as callimachus. 3rd century BC wrote an epic in style that is very refined full of aerodyct illusion, the epic is very detailed with obscure little myths. Basically you got Jason sent out to get the Golden Fleece. Reemmeber Athamas, he was in love with some chick before named Nephele, who was named Helle and Phrixus, but then Ino the evil stepmother was jealous of them, she makes up story that they have to be sacrificed. -Nephele saves them by haqving a lam with golden wool that can fly, but Helle cant hold on, drops into the sea at the Hellespond according to this myth. -now we`ve got phrixus in some place, and the fleece hangin over some tree, guarded by a dragon -years later, peles tells Jason to get the fleece hoping he`d be killed. -that`s why Jason set out to get this fleece, they then cross meditterean. -Jason has to past some texts to get fleece. -medea the princess fell in love, who also a witch, and she givesw him magical herbs that make him invulnerable. -so Jason can perform the teeth of a dragon which arise out of these seeds that are humans who abou tto kill jason, then jason throws the stone at field and they fight. -Medea puts the dragon to asleep, and then jason can get the fleece, leave and travels back to Greece. -medea betrayed family and flees with Jason loves him dearly, but won`t last loong -once they get back to greece, medea rejevnates Aeson (jason`s old brother), and bacchus thinks its so cool and asks her to do same for nurses of bacchus. -Medea tricks Pelias daughter that can be doen for pelias too, but tricks them saying pelias first needs to be cut at throat and such, the daugthers does it, and then medea just laughs and leaves him to die. Page 156: famous story associated with medea is murder of her children which is only couple of lines. -jason falls in love with some princess, better than the marriage with barbarian Medea.
-Medea tries to poison the princess, and she kills her own children to anger Jason. That;s fucked up. -she then flees on her chariot drawn by winged dragons from Jason -she goes to Athens and marreis Aegeus, father of theseus. -Theseus is not there cause he grew up with mom. -his mom is Aethra -theseus grows up outsdie athens, and as token of recognition, he owns sword of his fathr, he now has to make his way back to athens, he slays buncha bandits and monsters that were cursed to the attic landscape on way -Theseus is foundin hero of athens. -don`t learn all specific theseus myths, just know he civilizes the landscape -Medea wants to rid of Theseus cause threatening throne. -she gives hiim tasks then tries to poison him, but just as Theseus about to take poison, Aegeus recognizes sword and doesnt let him die. Minos-frame -minos king of ctete, angry at athens cause aegeus killed his son, hes lookin for allies vs Athens -Aeceus another king, he refuses to help minos cause they ally of Athens -the conflict between Athens and Crete carry on to next book -Cephalus the athenian ambassador, asks Aeacus for help vs Crete, he says ok since they allied. -Cephalus asks where all nice young ppl in the city is, Aecus says sad cause theyall died in the play, the whole population died out -so how does Aeacus get population backÉ -there`s some ants -Myrimidons = ants people. -Zeus helps Aeacus transforms ants into the myrimidon people to repopulate his city. -Cephalus is asked about his javelon, and what great spear he has there.
-Cephalus tells the story of Cephalus and Procris. Cephalus and Procris -one day, aurora kidnaps Cephalus cause hes so cute and wants to have sex with him -Cephalus says hes faithful though, his faithfulness tested, he returns to Procris disguised and tries to test procris`fedality. -Procris resists advances but eventually she caves, and the Cephalus goes `haaaah... you are unfaithful, u willing to cheat with disguised me`. -so procros angry and leaves, lives with Diana, and then eventualy they reconcile, and she gives him the magical javelin and a great hunting dog. -the dog chases a bad beast, both turned into stones.... (some lil inserted myth) -what`s really tragic is that Cephalus likes to hunt, hes sweaty and shit, its breezy and its nice, he calls out ``airrrr```. -osmeone hears that and thinks hes having affair with air -he is still like shouting euphircally the aiirrrrrr. -then some shit happens, he fires his javelin at her, and always hit. -shes dying, he tries to tell his mistakes, but too bad, shes about to die. thus end lecture and book 7
