Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Ovid book 1

  • The Creation- There is nothing and then a god creates the world.
  • The Four Ages- Gold: Everything is perfect, Silver: 4 seasons began, Bronze: People began cruelty, Iron: Bad thoughts took the mind of humans such as murder and so on and so forth.
  • The Giants- Giants roamed the land and tried to take the skies.
  • Lycaon- The man who prevoked Jove to destroy the human race.
  • The Flood- Basically Jove floods the whole earth due to Lycaons attempt to assasinate him.
  • Deucalion & Pyrrha- The "Adam and Eve" of the new world.
  • Python- A great serpent killed by Phoebus.
  • Apollo and Daphne- Cupid shoots Apollo and he falls in love with Daphne, who would rather be a tree than be with him I suppose.
  • Io & Jove- Jove decides he wants Io so he rapes her and then (how gentlemanly) turns her into a cow then gives he to his wife Juno.
  • Syrinx- A nymph in a story Mercury tells Argus.
  • Io & Jove- Io turns from heifer to goddess.
  • Phaethon- A peer of Io's son, his father is the sun whom he would like to meet... but we will explore that story in the next book.

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