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