Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Study 21 terms ovids metamorphoses book xi flashcards. Ovid, metamorphoses 1 theoi classical texts library. Alexirhoe, the daughter of the twohorned granicus, so rumor has it. Book 3 book 4 book 5 book 6 book 7 book 8 book 9 book 10 book 11 lines 184. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of metamorphoses and what it means. In greek mythology, aesacus or aisakos was a son of king priam of troy. Get a detailed summary and analysis of every chapter in the book from. Book 3 when jupiter arrives at crete, still carrying the princess europa, he abandons his bull shape and turns back into himself.
Jove believed that it had to be better for women, and juno disagreed, so they called on tiresias. Juno and jove were playfully arguing about whether love was better for men or women. Diana punishes actaeon for accidentally stumbling upon her when she is naked. In ovids metamorphoses, aesacus is an illegitimate son of king priam. This book begins auspiciously, with the founding of thebes. The gods punish nearly every major character for a crime, regardless of whether the crime was committed wittingly or unwittingly. The old man was the expert on the subject because hed been born a man, but when hed one day hit mating snakes with a stick, he was transformed into a woman. Aesacus sorrowed for the death of his wife or wouldbe lover, a daughter of the river cebren, and was transformed into a bird.