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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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12/20/2010

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Jupiter/Jove (in Ovid)
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king of Gods, son of saturn, god of sky and thunder
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What Jupiter does in the Metamorphoses
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goes to earth as a human, visits Arcadia and reveals that he is a king
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Lycaon
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Arcadian King who tests Jove by killing a Molossian man and trying to feed him to Jove.
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jove's reponse to Lycaon
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He destroys the table/house and turns him into a wolf, lycaon then runs into the woods
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Iris
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goddess of rainbows and juno's messenger
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Neptune
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god of sea
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what happens in the iron age of man?
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god work together to flood the world and kill mankind
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Aelous
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god of wind, helps in the flooding
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Deucalion and Pyrrha
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only two people left alive after the flood
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Themis
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goddess who D+P appeal to, she tells them to "fling the bones of your mother behind you"
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what do D+P do?
Definition
they throw stones = mother earth's "bones"
the stones become men and women (each gender from the one who threw it)
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Apollo
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Archer God, killed great serpent/python - created the first Pythian Games
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girl apollo likes?
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Daphne, the daughter of a river god
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What does apollo do?
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he mocks cupid's little bow and arrow, the child of venus
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and what does cupid do?
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he shoots distaste arrow at Daphne and desire/love arrow at apollo
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daphne runs to?
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Diana, the hermit-huntress; in order to become her own woman
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Phoebus (apollo) chases her and then what happens?
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his father, jove, spares him the pain by turning her into a tree...apollo still loves the tree
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Inachus's daughter?
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lo - he loses her to jupiter's wandering eye
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lo runs from jupiter, what happens?
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jupiter says he'll protect her, but then he rapes her
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Juno, jupiter's wife, becomes suspicious, come to earth to see what jupiter is up to. jupiter does what?
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turns lo into a milk white heifer and gives it to juno as a gift
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juno has argus guard it. argus?
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giant with a hundred eyes
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mercury (son of jupiter + plead) puts on winged shoes and does what
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(sent by jupiter) he goes to kill argus
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mercury tell the story of the flute and puts argus to sleep who is syrinx?
Definition
a chaste nymph who is turned into reeds by gods so Pan can't get her
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