- The Periedes are transformed into Magpies
- What did Scylla steal from her dad? Purple hair
- How did Daedelus trap the minotaur? The labyrinth
- How did Theseus find his way out of the labyrinth? Twine from Ariadne.
- What was on Europa’s Basket? The story of Io’s rape
- How did Shakespeare out do Ovid in grotesqueness? Levenia’s hands were even cut off.
- Mythological animal from Flannery O’Connor’s Greenleaf? Bull
What is all mythology? Bull (for you shaman)
- Where was Adonis struck by the boar? Groined
- What mythic rule did Proserpina break? She ate a handful (seven in some tellings) of pomegranates
- Why are there seasons? Proserpina ate while in the underworld
- In Cadmus and Harmony what are the 3 stages?
- Conviviality
- Rape
- Indifference
- One of the few stories in Ovid with a happy ending? ( I said Io and Jove, but apparently becoming a god doesn’t cover up becoming a cow first:) Pygmalion
- “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
- According to Sexson, Ovid is telling us that the task of the artist is to alter nature.
- What is the difference between Arachne and Minerva’s tapestry? Minerva’s displayed the “state sponsored art” while Arachne weaved the gods as invasive criminals
- How did Hercules die? Chunks of Flesh.
- What did Venus turn Adonis’s blood into? Anemone Flower.
- According to Homer’s Odyssey, why do we suffer? So the poets have something to write about.
- Ekphrasis- Velazquez and the Titian paintings (art within the art)
- Corin’s parents- tom and Christine…or is it Timothy and Jody…..
- What’s Hercules’ wife’s name? Dianera (diarrhea…)
- What is the Mythological Ideology of the Cornucopia? Hercules rips Achelous horn off.
- Centaur who abducts Hercules wife? Nessus
- What does sleep represent to Eliade? Imprisonment and amnesia
- What was the fate of Icarus? Drowns (He ended up in a painting)
Noteworthy
Read Eliade Chapter 9 Again
View Dusty, Charismatic Kari, Alexa’s, and Sarah’s blog
Make sure you have your I minute myth ready by the 16th
Review over old test material
Brush up on your Frazer
Watch Apocalypse Now
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