Week 6: Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Reading Overview

The selections this week are Book 6 and Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, together with some of the teachings of Pythagoras from Book 15.

Background Reading

Arachne and Minerva
Niobe
Latona and the Lycians
Marsyas
Tereus, Procne and Philomela
Boreas and Orithyia
Orpheus and Eurydice
The Death of Cyparissus
Orpheus sings of Ganymede and of Hyacinthus
Orpheus sings of the Propoetides and of Pygmalion
Orpheus sings of Myrrha
Orpheus sings of Venus and Adonis
Venus tells the story of Atalanta
Orpheus sings the death of Adonis
Death of Orpheus
Teachings of Pythagoras

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