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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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Mulberry
Pyramus Thisbe Cf. Midsummer Nights 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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Junos 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 cant
drink in sight of grapes he cant 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