Book 4

Book Four - Nay Sayers. Some of the stories show folks just not going along with the Gods.  Doesn't usually serve them well. You know how those Gods can be! 

Daughters of Minyas - When a feast day was declared, all of the ladies were to put away their weaving and gather to honor the Gods.  Not these gals!  I think this is the first official "Stich and Bitch" group meeting.  You go girls!

Pyramus and Thisbe - This reminded me alot of Romeo and Juliet.  Just a sad misunderstanding often seen in young love, this time with a tragic ending.  Too sad.  This might explain why it is so uncommon to hear about Women being ready before Men for a date???

Mars and Venus  - Gotcha!!  What more needs to be said.................tee hee.  I love that cupid was involved in all of this!! 

Perseus and Andromeda - Another awesome love story. Really says somthing for love at first sight!!  To think of the wrath that happened over a woman he had just met is pretty amazing!  Glad to know  that the marriage worked out! 

Now with that said, I have to say that this tops the cake for the absolute worst wedding reception ever!!  I will  always think of this from now on as I suffer through my friends childrens' wedding receptions!!

Book Three

Book 3 continued. 

Semele - Another good example of a women scorned.  Juno is a bit mad that another woman, Semele, is about to give birth to her husbands child.  Who wouldnt be?  So she tricks Semele into asking Jove to show himself to her in all his glory.  First of all - oh brother!  So anway, she does, and yes, it makes her blow up!  Couldn't happen to a nicer girl. 

Tiresias - I love this story.  So apparently, Jove and Juno are just sitting around discussing their sex life.  With all of the issues these two have, seems like they need more communcation.  So they decide to turn to the local - bi-sexual, hermophrodite in town.  Well, he does not pick for Juno and we all know how well she handles dissapointment, so she makes him blind, but Jove gives him prophesy for voting for him.  He becomes one of the biggest prophets.  The blind seer. 

Narcissus:  One of my very favorites!  I have found that I can understand and relate to these stories much better by comparing them to experiences in my own life.  Like you said, I am more sure now that everthing does repeat itself. Narcissus is Tiresias's first prophecy.  He says he will never grow old if he comes to know himself.  Well, he catches a glipse of himself in some water and ends up withering away from longing to be with himself.  He basically loves himself so much that he just wastes away staring at himself.  I am almost positive I met this guy in the Cannery back in my single days.  And.....I think he is still there and has turned into a Jukebox facing the mirror.  Yup, thats him!

Book 3

Book Three Sentences. I have to get better at this blogging thing.  I have officially done this three times now and keep loosing it before I post.  UGH!! 
One more try...........

There seems to be a theme in Book 3 of the saying "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"  I think they had Juno in mind when they came up with that one!  for example:

Acteon:  This poor boy was just out for a walk after a long morning hunt with his buddies and quiet by accident came across Dianna bathing and caught a glimpse of her nude.  Seems not all that unlikely being she was in the great outdoors skinny dipping with a bunch of virgins, and who wouldn't take a glance at that if you came across it on a hike??!??   Although it was a total accident according to Ovid, Diana turns him into a stag and he ends up getting hunted and killed by his own friends that have been turned into dogs.   Bad day.

Book 2 Sentences

Phaethon - The ultimate "my bad" when taking Dad's car.  Seems that something needs to be done about this not being able to take back a promise, especially when it could cause the end of the world.


Callisto - She really got the bad end of things and had way too many Gods seeking revenge on her.  Now that is a bad day!!  She really didn't seem to deserve any of it.   This is when they all realized she was pregnant. 

 Which started here, when she was decieved by Jove disguising himself as Diana.

                                                                 Now Look at her!!

Class Notes 10/14/10

Middles and Muddles - The world of obstacles.  From the time you get up till you go to bed. 
Homework - Go out and have a bad day.  Done and today is not going great either!!

Autumn leaves are mythological.  Ceres and Proserpina -

Marriage is a form of abduction - an imitation of a contractual obligation.  Women are "given" to men.  Demeter is what matters.  She is the mother of agriculture - Mother of the earth.  She has the power to make and or stop things from growing.  She is unhappy her daughter has been given to Pluto so she stops the trees from growing and starts all of the leaves changing and starts winter.  She wants her daughter back.  If you are in the underworld, as Pluto and prosephones are you should never eat the food cuz then you stay there forever.  perwithues wants persephone to be his wife so they go down to hell to get her and Hedes says OK I'll go get her.  but when he returns with her they cannot get up and get off of the bench.  Hercules eventually saves one of them

Look for mythic clues.  Homework.  3 clues of something mythological.  
Look at Arachne by Valazquez.  Spinners

The Metamorphoses of Arachne is both punishment and reward - takes us from crime to punishment.

Using The Spinner art of Valazquez as a model - find the mythological background that is around us.  Find the leg of Minerva.  Find the clue that is covering up the mythological world behind it.

Deja Vu - already sseen.  making a short term and a long term memory at the same time.

Natalie Zemon Davis Fiction of the archives.  The manuscript found in saragossa.   Jerry Garcia loved the movie that was made of this book.  The book is a story of a person telling a story etc. etc. etc.  The Saragossa Manuscript.

Ingris - Jupiter and Thesis -

He has chosen the most gruesome stories in the Metamorhoses.  Go to Titian for art. 

Most of these stories are from book 6.  Titians -Marsius.

Satyr - one of a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods.  a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus. 

 Trope - a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

Iris Mudoch -

Humbling Experience

The the first exam is behind us.  Ouch.  I felt prepared, the first page was awesome, went downhill from there.  Live and Learn.  Moving on to middles...................................

Class Notes 10/12/10
Re- arranging the Syllubus a bit - running a bit behind.  Paying particular attention today to two stories, Europa and Jove.  The rape of Europa and the story at the beginning of book 6 - Arachne.  This is the story that should be the basis of your group presentation.  Showing how mythology is all around us. 

We will each be assigned an Ovid story and have to do a one minute presentation next week some time.
Book 2 - pg 72 - Europa - Cadmus's sister.  Granddaughter of Io.  Look up the artwork the Spinners by Valazquez.    Ekphrases to talk about one medium of an art along with another.  The Spinners is a painting of the tahitan painting of the rape of Europa being created.  She is the daughter of Agenor.
Arachne - pg 177 - Book 6.  Corrins parents are Christine and Tom.  Mentor is a mythological term out of Homer.  Who does Ovid admire most in the Arachne story? 
What does Minerva choose  to weave intoherweb - she portrays the hill of Mars, a part of Cecrops citadel.  The icon of an ancient contraoversy.  in great detail, showing all the gods etc.  including herself ending being crowned by victory.  In summary the glory of the gods, in particular herself.  at each corner she had a painted scene of contest.  each being a pictured warning.  Mandala. 
Arachne scened displayed Europa fooled by the feigned image of a bull  - she also draws Asterie gripped tightly by the eagle - she shows Leda who lies beneath the swans wings.   And she adds those taled of Jove and all the times he duped others.  Then she shoed all the times Neptune duped others to get his way.  Then she goes on to show all the other disguises that the Gods use to dupe people and others.  Minerva is furious becuase of the disrespect Arachne has shown making clear all of the wrongs of the gods.  Arachne goes to hang herself but Minerva lets her live and ends up turning her into a spider. 

Pick up The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. 
Presentation - what is the background.  The rape of persophone.  Europa was holding a shining Gold basket.  Discover what story you are in.  Figure out what story you are in.    

Class Notes - 10/04/10 Test review

Cadmus and Harmony - How did it all begin? 
Know about the word Mythology  - Mythos + Logos  - truth and stories makes mythology

Corrin was born - July 15, 1991 - Franklin, WI \St.- Lukes Hospital.
Imagination is tethered to reality. 

Questions:  Areas the exam will be taken from
Myth and Reality - chpts 1,2,3,7.
PDF - "Myth the way we were or are."  M Sexson.
Larry Browns Ovid's Metamorphoses site - Books 1 - 4.  none of Perseus.  Read the material that goes through the first half of book 4.
Look at chart of names of greeks and roman gods.  Just the big guys. 
Notes of Note takers = Carrie Boles - MS - Mayan.
1.  Pan and Syrinx - Who put Argus to sleep?
2. 2 core parts of mythology - Myth and Logos = Stories and "Truth".
3. What does in illo tempore mean? - In that great time - before creation.
4.  Axis Mundi is often represented / Um Phollos - Axis Mundi is the center of the world - tree - OmPhallos is the navel - the center of everything.
5.  What do you call violent dismemberment - Sparagmos.
6.  Chpt 7 Myth Reality - define anamnesis = unforgetting your memories.  re-remembering
7.  What are the five types of myth - primitives to Zen = 1. Creation -Ex nihilo - 2. Earth Diver
       3. Emergence 4. Dismemberment 5. Splitting or ordering. reread in eliade
8.  Zenophanes - 1st to present us with the theory that we all project our thoughts
9.  Metemphychosis - the process of a soul beginning a new body - the transmigration of souls.
10. Europa - Who was it that Jove seduced by turning himself into a bull and carrying her off in the waves.
11. From ovids first book, what were the ages of man- gold, silver, bronz, and iron.
12.  Who brought the age of silver  - Jove took over Saturn. 
13.  The four creation stories - earliest to latest - 1. women created by herself.  2.  woman created with a snake - 3. created from dismembered body of a woman 4.  Male created by the creation of speach.
14.  En- theos - enthusiam possessed by the gods.
15. Daemon - the alter ego - the guardian angel.  the other aspect of your personality. Ca
16.  Semele/Juno - got her to get Jove to show his real self
17.  Cadmus's 4 daughters - 1.  Semele 2.  Autonaoe  3. Agave 4.  Ino
18.  How did Io reveal herself to her father.  scratched hername in his palm.
19.  Who was Coronis?  one of Apollos lovers. White crow that told Apollo about an affair.  now    they     are       all black. 
20.  Kronos - father of zeus. Same as Saturn.
21.  What 3 ladies make up the triple goddess?  The Mother, the Maiden and the old Crone.
22.  Uranus, Kronos Zeus, How did they stop their children - Uranus - stuffed his children back into mother Kronos - Ate them -Zeus -  Killed the Mother.
23.  What animalwas Calisto tranformed into?  a Bear
24.  What happened to Actaeon when he gazed ona  goddess?  He became horny with antlers.
25.  Don't Look Stories
26.  How does Cadmus create Thebes - scattering of the snakes teeth
27.  Pentheus - Refuses to worship bachus - dies by sparagmos. Dresses up like a woman and his own mother and others rip him apart.