Ovids Metamorphoses Book I Examples of figures of speech: My soul would sing of metamorphoses but since, o gods, you were

the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the worlds beginning to our day. the damp contended with the dry, things hard with soft, and weightly things with weightless parts. discordant concord is the path life needs. (19) I am the one who has invented medicine, But now there is no herb to cure my passion; My art, which helps all men, cant heal its master. (23) On one side, shame keeps urging: Give her up. Love, on the other side, insists: Do not. (27) Even as when grain is harvested, the stubble left will burn, or as the hedges burn when chance has led some traveler to bring his torch too close, or to forget it on the road. (22) Who/what am I? Golden Age Silver Age Lycaon Cyclopes Iris Python Apollo Triton Inachus Argus Pan Jupiter Juno Phaethon Mt. Parnassus 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Bronze Age Iron Age Deucalion and Pyrrha Io Themis Daphne Latona Diana Epaphus Syrinx Cupid Clymene Giants (Hecatoncheires)

_______________ I kill a hostage, boil him and try to feed him to Jupiter. _______________ I am the son of Saturn _______________ There were no laws during this age _______________ I have one-hundred eyes. _______________ We made Jupiters thunderbolts _______________ We are cousins, we are married and are the only two people left on earth after the flood

7. _______________ I drew two arrows from my quiverone is dull, the other sharp. One arrow rejects love, the second kindles love. 8. _______________ I am the only place spared from the flood. 9. _______________ Jupiter changes me into a white heifer. 10. _______________ I planned to murder Jupiter in his sleep 11. _______________ I am the daughter of Epimetheus. 12. _______________ I have dread locks and an ivory scepter. 13. _______________ Jove is my father, through me all is revealed (whats yet to be, what was, and what is now), the harmony of song and lyre is achieved through me. 14. _______________ I see a strange river mist, hovering clouds in full daylight that brings about a darkness deep as night and think that my husband is up to something. 15. _______________ My mother is Maia. 16. _______________ My mothers name is Clymene. 17. _______________ No other woman matches me in devotion to the gods. 18. _______________ We have snake-shaped feet and one-hundred hands. 19. _______________ If I could have uttered words, I would have told my name and begged for help. Instead, I traced the letters of my name in sand with my hoof. 20. _______________ I am Junos messenger; my robes are many-colored. I fetch water and fuel the clouds with rain. 21. _______________ My son is Epaphus who is also Phaethons cousin. 22. _______________ I summon my messenger and tell him to kill Argus. 23. _______________ I am given the task of guarding the heifer. 24. _______________ I am the son of Prometheus. 25. _______________ I am the god of medicine. 26. _______________ Men began to travel and mine and make war during this age. 27. _______________ During this age, spring was constant. 28. _______________ I have a cap, wings, and an enchanted wand. 29. _______________ I am surrounded by a veil of heavy fog and raped. 30. _______________ I tell them to throw the bones of their mother behind them. 31. _______________ My shoulders are shell-encrusted; I hold a conch which I blow; when I blow on the conch the waters retreat. 32. _______________ During this age the four seasons came about, men sought shelter in homes, and farming came about. 33. _______________ No one believes that Apollo is my father. 34. ______________ Juno takes his hundred eyes and places them on the peacock, her favorite animal. 35. ______________ A sea is named after me. 36. ______________ I am a horrible serpent, killed by Apollo. 37. ______________ I am the god of Delos and become enflamed with love. 38. ______________ I shall always wear your leaves to wreathe my hair, my lyre and my quiver. 39. ______________ My father is a river god named Inachus. 40. ______________ I invented the pan pipes. 41. ______________ I am Latonas daughter and have a twin.

42. ______________ I am a nymph that Pan pursued. I am turned into marsh reeds. 43. ______________ I sent a Fury to harass poor Ios eyes and mind and pierced her breast with an invisible, relentless goad and drove the frightened girl across the world. 44. ______________ I went from land to land, a god in human guise to see for myself how wicked man was. 45. ______________ I am turned into a wolf for my wickedness. 46. ______________ I am the daughter of Peneus. Why is the human race so tough? Book II and it hurls him out of both his chariout and his life he moaned as does the cow who sees the hammer, lifted as high as the right ear, crash down, resounding as it pounds the hollow temples of her own suckling calf. Like a ship thats tossed and battered by the blasts of Boreas a ship whose captain has renounced the helm and now depends upon the gods and prayers such was the chariot of Phaethon. (44) Who/what am I? Apollo Vulcan Clymene Tethys Styx Aurora Phaethon Eous, Aethon, Pyrois, Phlegon Merops Helicon Muses Ethiopians Atlas Naiads Jupiter Heliades Cygnus Callisto Diana Arcas Lycaon Tethys Coronis Erychthonius Minerva Nile Cecrops Pandrosos Herse Aglauros Nyctimene Chiron Aesculapius Chariclo Ocyrhoe Hippe Philyra Maia Battus Mercury Envy Europa Agenor Mother Earth Lucifer Ethiopians 1. ________________I assume the shape of a bull to seduce a mortal. 2. _________________________________We are the four winged horses of the Sun. 3. ________________ I have a chariot of fire. 4. ________________ I am the pool by which all Gods swear.

5. ________________ I hid my face for one full day and the world was left without a single ray of sun. 6. ________________ I must remove my dazzling rays that wreath my head in order for a mortal to see me and not perish. 7. ________________My seven mouths become parched and clogged with dust; my seven riverbeds are stripped of waves. 8. ________________ My gates are purple, my halls rich with rose light. 9. ________________ We have fire in our chestsit fuels our mouths and nostrils blazing breath. 10. ________________ The Muses live here. 11. ________________ I wear a regal purple robe. 12. ________________ I ask to drive my fathers chariot for one day. 13. ________________ I receive the sun chariot into my waves at every days end. 14. _______________________ I built Apollos chariot. 15. _______________________ Our skin turned dark as a result of the chariot running out of control. 16. _______________________ I am the last star to leave the sky. 17. _______________________ I am Phaethons grandma. What do the horses of Apollo eat? How many gods are able to steer Apollos chariot? What does Apollo do to Phaethons face before he assumes control of the chariot? Why? What advice does Apollo give to Phaethon with regard to steering the chariot?