Thursday, 14 May 2020

What’s up with Caenis and Caeneus? What transition happens here? How does the transition come about and why?

Please read and respond to Ovid’s Metamorphoses (transitions) Book 12.
What’s up with Caenis and Caeneus? What transition happens here? How does the transition come about and why?
Who is Eurytus, son of Ixion? And to whom in the story is he related and how did the relationship come about?
What does “cloud-born centaurs” mean (474, 210)? (see notes at the end of the book.)
How much of this book can you connect with any of Cohen’s theses.
Note the detail in Ovid’s description of blood and gore -- verbs and simile.

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