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Humans Transformed | Mythopoetic Miscellany
https://mythonoesis.com/2014/10/15/humans-transformed
Humans are often transformed into animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, flowers, and trees. In book VI alone, the weaver Arachne is turned into a spider, Niobe into a weeping rock, some Lycian peasants into frogs, Philomela, Procne and Tereus into birds. Here is a painting of Arachne as a spider:. Arachne becomes a spider. October 15, 2014. Posted by guitarsophist on October 15, 2014. The Big Fight at the Wedding of Perseus and Andromeda. October 21, 2014. October 22, 2014. After Otalgi’s ...
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What Are Myths? | Mythopoetic Miscellany
https://mythonoesis.com/2014/10/05/what-are-myths
In a web posting called “The Origin of Philosophy: The Attributes of Mythic/Mythopoeic Thought,” Kelley L. Ross makes the following points about myths:. Myths are stories about persons, where persons may be gods, heroes, or ordinary people. Myth allows for a multiplicity of explanations, where the explanations are not logically exclusive (can contradict each other) and are often humorous. Mythic traditions are conservative. Innovation is slow, and radical departures from tradition rarely tolerated. The B...
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Ovid’s Art | Mythopoetic Miscellany
https://mythonoesis.com/2014/10/18/ovids-art
Ovid gathers and shapes the mythological material. The stories come from a long oral and written tradition. Ovid does not invent the characters or the plots. As we have seen, however, Ovid does much more than simply retell what he has heard and read. First, there is the poetry. In the introduction to. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition. For the reader who lacks Latin, however, there are some other matters of which to take note:. Attending to one or more of these factors wi...