Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Extra Reading Diary: Ovid's Metamorphoses

For this week, I chose to use Ovid's Metamorphoses I as my extra reading diary.


Deucalion and Pyrrha:

  • Story has many parallels to the great flood in Christianity.
  • Human race was re-created from the earth.
  • A lot of analogies so many can understand the importance of the earth. Earth = Mother. It is easily understood because humans have something to compare it to.
  • All religions have "creation" stories that have similar tropes in them.
  • Jupiter/Zeus causes a lot of issues because of his lust. 
  • Gods have a lot of flaws that humans often struggle with. Jealousy, anger, lust, etc.
  • Jupiter never gets punished even though he is often the source of the issue. Patriarchal themes.
  • Jupiter is often the only one who can convince Juno to stop her vengeance.
  • These unfaithful interactions explain how things happen. I.e. the star constellations.
  • I wonder if these were also explanations for a type of "immaculate conception" involving the children of Zeus and his lovers.
  • Phaethon is trying to look for his father, whom he assumes is in the heavens.
  • His father is the sun god.
  • He asks to drive the sun chariot, but many try to convince him not to do it. 
  • He eventually does and this leads to his death. Because of his death, his father refuses to continue his job for a while.
  • Assuming this is an explanation for weather related issues that Greeks/Romans had no understand of.

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