CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rape Culture, Dactylic Hexameter
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Venus trying on the breastplate, which minerva would usually do. While minerva fans the flames of love, which is what venus usually does. Uses examples of gods or goddesses that aren"t doing what they normally do: your empire, boy, is enormous and far too powerful as it is. Interesting because in a very distant way, cupid is augustus" half- brother: cupid has inspired him to write love poetry. Ovid is clever because he writes that he didn"t want to but he is. Amores 2. 14 & 2. 15: there is no place for abortion because he wants there to be kids, consider this in the context of the times. 2. 13: angry that he wasn"t consulted, he views men as superior. Ovid"s poems are different in many ways from the world we live in.
