1. 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

4. Cf. Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mulberry
Pyramus & Thisbe
Cf. Midsummer Night’s Dream

5. Mars & Venus
Botticelli

6. Aphrodite and Ares

7. Mars and Venus caught

8. What happened to Leucothoe?
Clytie

9. Salmacis & Hermaphroditus

12. 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

15. Tantalus

17. Ixion

18. Danaids

19. Lepidoptera Nymphilidae Tisiphone

20. Tisiphone brings madness on Athamas and Ino in Thebes

23. Cadmus and Harmonia