ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Ovid, Truancy
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Ovid (publius ovidius naso) (43bc-17ad?: author of metamorphoses (8 ce; 15 books, exiled by rome"s first emperor augustus in 8 ce, ostensibly for a poem and a mistake . He is a sculptor that makes a statue with his own hands; he thinks its really beautiful and spends all his time with her. He thinks its against the gods to marry the statue. Venus the god of love grants his wish to bring the statue to life. Theme of artistic creation (232-233: marvelous triumphant artistry , gave it perfect shape his masterwork fired him with love , such art his art concealed . The sexual politics of ovid"s pygmalion : the statue is nameless, the statue"s motionlessness is attributed to modesty (233, the statue is completely passive when pygmalion courts it (233) Philosophy influenced both the american and the french revolutions. 1811: pigmalion"s predicament: he has artist"s block (1-14, cause of his distraction gradually recealed: