CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Hoopoe, Aeacus, Aeson
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Ovid metamorpheses 6-7 now we move into realms of the heroes. End of book 5, minerva asked about magpies and shit, So book 5 ends with the contest of the arts. Book 6 begins with the weaving contest, arachne so good at it she considers herself better than the gods. The motif is divine anger here, the 1st half of book 6. Marsyas thinks hes better flute player than apollo arachne and minerva. The way she weaves is similar to way to the cosmos creation. This globe has to be formed and fashioned and the thread that has to be spung is similar to how creator created the universe in book 1. The creator of universe is artist, like the illusion to shield of achilles and now we have arachne as creative figure. Remember the proeum to metamorpheses, the continuous song, the epic, the big narrative, to lead , to spin in a fine polished way.
