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Ovid – Week 4 Minyas – King of Orchomenos in Northern Boeotia, north of Thebes Daughters of Minyas resisted worship of Bacchus and spent his holiday telling stories – mainly stories from the East. Pyramus & Thisbe - Babylon Mars & Venus Sun god & Leucothoe - Persia Salmacis & Hermaphroditus - Halicarnassus
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Cf. Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mulberry Pyramus & Thisbe Cf. Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Mars & Venus Botticelli
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Aphrodite and Ares
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Mars and Venus caught
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What happened to Leucothoe?
Clytie
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Salmacis & Hermaphroditus
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Juno’s trip to the Underworld
Over the River Styx Boatman Charon who rows dead across Palace of Dis (another name for Pluto or Hades) Cerberus – 3-headed dog 5 Sinners Tityos – spread over 9 acres Tantalus – suspended in water he can’t drink in sight of grapes he can’t touch Sisyphus – repeatedly rolls a rock up a hill, after which it rolls back down Ixion – spread on a fiery wheel that rolls around Hades Danaids (group) – trying to carry water in sieves
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Tantalus
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Ixion
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Danaids
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Lepidoptera Nymphilidae Tisiphone
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Tisiphone brings madness on Athamas and Ino in Thebes
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Cadmus and Harmonia
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