Ovid book 1
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Ovid Metamorphosis
The Creation
· In the beginning there was chaos and shapeless matter
· Then either god or nature began sorting out the confusion
· He moulded the earth into a great sphere, then he separated, wind, water, air and fire
· He added seas, rivers, lakes, plains valleys and mountains
· He added stars in the heavens
· Then he added deserts, icecaps and places in between
· Then clouds wind and thunder came
· Then fish and animals
· Then he man humans in the likeness of god and created man from clay.
The four ages
· The first age was the golden age, the age of free will
· There was no laws because everyone trusted each other
· There was no punishment, no judges, no armies , no ships; men were happy
· There was no need to plough food as food was in an abundance, men ate fruits such as strawberries blackberries and acorns
· Spring was the only season and flowers that had never been planted still had life
· Rivers of milk and rivers of nectar also flowed in abundance
· But when Jupiter took the throne and cast Saturn into murky Tartarus, the Silver age began
· It was meaner than Gold but higher in value than bronze
· The King of the gods divided the Earth into four seasons; summer winter and only a short Spring
· People now took shelter in houses and food had to be ploughed
· Then the bronze age came, they were cruller by nature and more ready to take up weapons, but they were not vile to the core
· The final age was the iron age
· Loyalty, truth and conscience all went into exile and there was a criminal lust for possession
· People started to travel to different places and they also started to mine the wealth hidden by the gods
· Grim war appeared and family was no longer loyal to each other
The Giants
· The giants of the land aspired the throne to heaven, so they piled mountain on mountain in attempt to reach heaven
· But mighty Jupiter took one of his lightning bolts and shook mount Olympus and all the other mountains
· They bodies came crushing down to earth and there fearsome bodies lay prostate
· Mother Earth took pity on them, so she drenched the blood of the giants and gave it new life; unwilling that all the fruit of her womb should be lost and forgotten
· She turned their blood into human form; but the new race also looked on the gods with contempt
· Their passionate lust for ferocious violence and slaughter prevailed. You could tell they were born of blood
Lycaon
· When Jupiter looked down from heaven, he…
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