Ovid: Of Bodies That Have Been Transformed

BODIES TRANSFORMED – HOW CAN THAT BE?

Compare to: Ovid, Metam.5,631-9

DAPHNE'S FATE

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 1,468-73

PEEPING TOMS – BEWARE!

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 3,173-194

THE OLD SEER

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 3,324-31

NARCISSUS BY THE POOL, or
WHETHER WE OUGHT MOST TO LOVE OURSELVES OR OTHERS

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 3,415-19; Aristotle, Nic. Eth. 9,8,6

MINERVA’S RIGHTEOUS (?) INDIGNATION

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 6,1-7

THE HEARTLESS MOTHER NIOBE

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 6,157-68; Plato, Rep. 2,380a-c

JASON – SOME ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 7,121-4; Plato, Phaedr. 229d-230a

THE CRETAN LABYRINTH

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 8,159-68

THE ESCAPE OF DAEDALUS

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 8,183-9

GODS IN DISGUISE

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 8,620-29; Acts of Apost. 14,11-3

SURVIVING THE GREAT FLOOD

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 8,712-9

ANIMAL SACRIFICES: PROS AND CONS
(INCLUDING SOME REFLECTIONS ON SWANS)

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 15,127-40; Plato, Phaedo 84e

ORPHEUS AND THE TREES (NATIVE AND OTHERWISE)

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 10,86-105

ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD

ORPHEUS IN THE NEW WORLD POOR EURYDICE Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 10,58-63

ART GIVES LIFE

Compare to: Ovid, Metam. 10,247-53

LOVE (AND LABOR) CONQUERS ALL

Compare to: Ovid, Heroid. 18

AN AFTERTHOUGHT: THE POET AND THE POWERS-TO-BE

Compare to: Ovid, Trist. 2,353-7; Ex Pont. 4,13,18-20;Lampridius, Life of Alex.Sev. 3

THE EXILE -- INWARD AND OUTWARD

Compare to: Ovid, Trist. 3,12,1-54
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