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    Ovid's Metamorphoses

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    Since the Metamorphoses needs both the straightforward ramifications of reason for the Aeneid, which changes over history into guess keeping in mind the end goal to trumpet the foreordained rule of Rome and the radiance of Augustus, and since it is made out of a unique progression of once in a while twisted stories, researchers and faultfinders have truthfully thought about the lyric, with the point of deciding its unity as well as of finding a solitary perspective. Verifiable in many contemplations

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    Metamorphoses After diving deeper into the production of Metamorphoses I couldn’t help but recognize a theme of, “The Powers of Love”. The objective of the performance was to present the transitions and effects that love has on people, by staging different myths and stories. By enabling different design element and implementing special effects, the production of Metamorphoses created a visual world in which the play could unfold. The set design was simple throughout the entire play, yet it delivered

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    Subaru's Metamorphose

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    Well let’s continue the hunt of the white whale with some laser harpoons! ( Morbid, I know ) And we start of with a line that goes completely against what Subaru was determined to do prior to his start from zero. He’s not giving up. The people around him are his lifeline so rallying them up is pretty much all he can do and as we know Subaru wants to do something at all cost. Finally we get the name for Subaru’s ground dragon; It’s Patrasche. The name itself becomes even more special because it’s

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    The Art of Rhetoric in the Metamorphoses Among the numerous passages covered in The Metamorphoses of Ovid, there are many stories regarding the origins of the Earth, the activities of the Roman gods, and some of Rome’s significant rulers and founders. Within each of these stories, Ovid injects an overall idea that can be taken away from the text. Many of these overall ideas are themes and lessons, but also there are arts that are illustrated to the reader such as poetry, singing, or weaving.

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    In order to understand Ovid’s Metamorphoses, it is necessary to know something of Ovid the person. Ovid was born Publius Ovidius Naso, March 20, 43 BC – AD 17/18, and he was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. With a contemporary style relative to that of Virgil and Horace with whom he is often compared and rank with as the trio being the three most recognized poets of Latin literature. Quintilian the imperial scholar considered Ovid one of the last Latin love elegists. He enjoyed

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    Ovid’s standards, as well as the men of Romeo and Juliet, any woman should be appreciative of the attention, and equally desire physical affection. Men are to be worshiped by women as gods. One such god that feels this way is Apollo in Book I of Metamorphoses. Apollo is flabbergasted that any woman would run away from him and believes Daphne is only evading him because she is unaware who he is and desirable qualities he posses; being the egotistical maniac he is, Apollo goes on to list all of these

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    Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an exceptionally written epic poem that is broken down into fifteen books. Throughout these books, tales of woe, danger, adventure, and love are told in a way that transports readers into the rich and exciting world that Ovid has created. In book three, the tale of “Narcissus and Echo” is told using beautiful diction and vivid imagery. The story is ultimately about a gorgeous man, named Narcissus, who toys with the affections of others, which leaves them completely despondent;

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    This piece was inspired by an excerpt of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in book number six which describes the slaughter of Niobe’s seven sons and seven daughters. Niobe was the queen of Thebes, married to King Amphion. She lived an extreme life of luxury and often bragged about how great her life was. One day the goddess Leto, also know was Latona, heard Niobe boasting about how much better her life was. Niobe could not stop comparing her extreme fertility, hence her 14 children, to Leto mere two offspring

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    Jessica's Metamorphose

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    In the event of 10-year-old girl Jessica, who has been comatose since birth, which now the doctors have discovered a cure which will result in Jessica becoming consciously aware of her surroundings for the first time. In John Locke’s view about Jessica being conscious for the first time, Locke would say Jessica has a “tabula rasa”. “Tabula rasa” in John Locke’s view means that humans are born with a blank slate, and not born with innate ideas. Locke would refer to his Theory of Knowledge when it

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    scrutiny; everything has importance, or else why would the narrator choose to include it? We must therefore hold a sort of analysis when reading any body of work with omnipotence as its narrator structure. Such is the case for Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Ovid tells us the story of creation in this unrestricted point of view—grazing over whole eons, but also focusing on specific events in history, such as the story of Lycaon. Ovid writes that humanity has reached an intolerable level to the god

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