Ovid Book Six

Arachne
"why not accept my challenge?' Pallas answered: 'She Has Come!"

Niobe
"Yet Niobe refused to learn just what her countrywoman's fate might well have taught: do not compete with the gods, and do not boast."

Marsayas
"Why do you tear me from myself? Oh, I repent! A flute is not worth such a price."

Tereus, Procne, Philomela
"Preciesly when he weves his plot, he seems a man most dutiful; he wins much praise for what is wickedness."

Boreas & Orithyia
"I pleaded with Erectheus--hoped he'd be my father-in-law--but I should, with deeds, have made him such."

Ovid Book Five

Perseus & Phineus

"What was a feast is now a bitter brawl: one might well liken it to tranquil seas that swell when winds--beserk--whip suddenly."

Minerva, the Muses, Pegasus

"She said the daughters of Mnemosyne, in what they did and where they lived , were blessed."

Arethusa & Alpheus

"Alpheus from his waters, called to me. 'where do you flee so quickly?'"

Triptolemus & Lyncus

"Once at Athena's town, on touching the ground, she gives her chariot as well as seeds of grain to young Triptolemus, and these she'd have him scatter wide in many lands."

The Pierides--Again

"You challendged us: for that alone you merit punishment. But now you dare to add abuse."

Perseus and Andromeda

As a visual for my oral presentation i decided to post the names of the characters and places in my myth:
Perseus and Andromeda


Seriphos Island
Ethiopia
King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia
Nereids
Poseidon
Cetus
Oracle of Ammon
Phineus

Ovid Book Four

   The Daughters of Minyas
"And only Minyas' daughters stay at home; they violate the holy day; the tasks Minerva sets are theirs: close to the loom, they give their housold women work to do." (Ovid 110)

   Pyramus & Thisbe
"They had no confidant-- and so used signs: with these each lover read the other's mind: when covered, fire acquires still more force." (Ovid 111)

   Mars, Venus, Vulcan, The Sun
"When Venus and her lover went--together--to bed, they both were soon entwined by that amazing trap and Vulcan's craft: the net had caught them in the act-- the pair had clapsed." (Ovid 116)

   Athamas & Ino
"While fear held fast those two, the fury puored this brew int their brests and it infused their inmost hearts with madness." (Ovid 129)

   Perseus & Atlas
"This Atlas, son of Iapetus, was Massive; no man could match his stature and no land lay further west than his domain--earths edge" (Ovid 134)

Ovid Book Three

   Cadmus
"And so he roamed the world in vain; what man could hope to bring to light the secret loves of Jove?"
(Ovid 77)

  Actaeon

"But then she set a long-lived stag's horns on the head she'd drenched" (Ovid 84)

   Semele
"She's glad to get a gift that will bring evil: in being free to choose at will, the girl will die because her lover must comply." (Ovid 88)

   Tiresias
"to mitigate Tiresias' penalty, his loss of sight, gave him the power to see the future, pairing pain with prophecy." (Ovid 90)

   Narcissus & Echo
"And when she asked the augur if her boy would live to see old age, Tiresias replied: "Yes if he never knows himself."" (Ovid 91)

Ovid Book Two

   Phaethon
"The road was steep, but when the boy had reached the palace, he went strait to face the sun" (Ovid 37)

   The Heliades
"joining Clymene in her lament, her daughters, the Heliades, now wept sad tears (the useless gift one gives the dead)." (Ovid 50)

   Cycnus
"a swan-- a strange new bird, who does not trust his wings to seek the sky of Jove, as if that bird recalled the cruel lightning bolt." (Ovid 51)

   Callisto
"But, shameless, you shall pay; I'll take from you the shape that gives both you and, too, my husband such delight." (Ovid 55)

   The Raven
"Phoebus' sacred bird was changed because his tongue was far to talkative: once white" (Ovid 58)

Ovid Book One

As i took a look around the classes blogs, i have decided that the ovidian sentences were pretty well mined out before i got around to doing mine. Therefore i have decided instead to use direct quotes from five stories per book that best describe or sum up the stories from which they are taken.

   The Creation

"an animal with higher intellect, more noble, able-- one to rule the rest: such was the living thing the earth still lacked." (0vid 5)

   Lycaon
"it would be useless to describe each sacrilige I found-- upon all sides: the truth was far, far worse than what I'd heard." (0vid 11)

   The Flood
"he'd send a deluge down from every part of heaven" (0vid 13)

   Deucalion & Pyrrha
"all the lands both east and west are empty now--and we alone are left: the sea has taken all the rest." (0vid 16-17)



   Apollo & Daphne

"the god of Delos is aflame with love; but Daphne hates its very name;" (Ovid 21)