- 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.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Ovid book 1
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