OVID Flashcards
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quote of Ovid giving women advice
“What’s hidden is unknown. Nothing unknown is desired”
quote of Ovid telling women how men play the game and how to use it to benefit them
“The wolf shadows many sheep, to snatch just one”
quote of Ovid warning women
“What they tell you they’ve told a thousand girls: their love wonders and lingers in no one place”
quote of Ovid using mythology to protect him
“before my eyes, stood Venus herself, and ordered me to teach you”
modern scholar quote talking about how Ovid uses humour and wit to manipulate his readers
“Of course, not all of the text makes fun of it’s addressees, and even some of those passages which do are using humour as an effective tool for reinforcing the message”-Roy Gibson
roy Gibson quote
“Of course, not all of the text makes fun of it’s addressees, and even some of those passages which do are using humour as an effective tool for reinforcing the message”-Roy Gibson
modern scholar quote saying Ovid instructs his readers
“A didactic epic speaks with one authorial voice, directed to an addressee. It is usually a serious literary form with instructional subject matter, rather than just persuasive. It can be, and often is, technical and detailed.”-Peter Toohey
Peter Toohey quote
“A didactic epic speaks with a single authorial voice and this is directed explicitly to an addressee, who may or may not be named. It is usually a serious literary from. It’s subject matter is instructional, rather than merely hortatory. It may be, and often is, quite technical and detailed.”-Peter Toohey
what was the purpose and intended audience of his poetry
men and women. he says Ars 3 is for low status girls, but only high status could read and most of his ‘advice’ benefits men as well/more than women
quote of Ovid saying his advice will be used against him & proof that men are also reading
“no doubt I’ll be attacked with my own weapons”
what was his social and poetic context and genre of his work
social context= Augustus was the 1st Roman Empire, he just passed the Julian laws
poetic context=most other famous poets of the time wrote in favour of Augustus (Virgil etc)
genre=teaching sexual exploration and love
how does he use the didactic style
he makes it erotic (only erotic didactic poetry surviving). Ovid writes in elegiac couplets instead of the traditional dactylic hexameter
what literary devices and language choices does Ovid make (7)
- metaphors
- taboo language
- euphemism
- metonyms
- litotes
- apostrophe
- anaphora
what is a euphemism
replacing a word to make something sound less rude. e.g. senior citizen vs old person
what is a metonym
when a writer mentions the whole of something by mentioning only a part of it. e.g. saying ‘wheels’ to refer to a car
what is litotes
emphasising something through understatement. (sarcasm)
what’s apostrophe
when a poet directly addresses something
what’s anaphora
repetition
what are the themes in Ars Amatoria 3
- Venus
-used as a safety net to not face ridicule - love and war
-it’s only fair that men and women can fight for love equally - young vs old
- old age is a threat to women, they should find love now before no one wants them - Catalogues
-telling women how to do their hair and what to wear
quote of Ovid saying ageing is a threat to women
“be mindful that old age will come to you: So don’t be timid and waste any of your time”
how does he use mythology
he uses famous mythological women as examples of what/what not to do. e.g. don’t be like Medea, be like Penelope
how does Ovid use humour
he uses it to reinforce his message. but it stand out naturally against his political context
how does Ovid represent love and desire
he presents it as a game which can be taught and won
how does Ovid represent men and women
presented as though they’re at war. acts like he’s betraying men. portrays women in a misogynistic way
