Exam 4: Rome: Ovid Creation

A fundamental difference between Ovid's Ages of Man and Hesiod's is that ____________________________.

Because many things in Ovid's work reflect issues of his time, ______________________________________.

________________________ is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Zeus.

Supply the word omitted from the following line of Ovid: "Either the Architect of All, . . . or else _________________ made man"?

Each story in Ovid's Metamorphoses portrays an instance of ___________________.

A belief well known at the time of Ovid held that the universe consisted of _________________.

A clue in "The Ages of Man" that Ovid is critical of his own Roman society is that __________________________.

The four Ages of Mankind, according to Ovid, were: ___________________________, ____________________________, ____________________________, and ____________________________.

The "Age" included by Hesiod but not by Ovid was _________________________.

A major difference between the gold and silver ages cited by Ovid was that ______________________.

________________________ was the Roman goddess of the sea.

_________________________ was the Roman counterpart of Poseidon.

"But since, O gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book . . ." shows that Ovid's poem will be different from a classical Greek one because he ______________.

The major characteristic of Ovid's iron age is _______________________________.

The first metamorphosis described in Ovid's poem is ______________________________________________.

Ovid's chaos differs from Hesiod's in that it is ____________________________.

Ovid says the bronze race were "more prone to cruelty, but not yet __________________."

The situation described by Ovid as "no thing maintained its shape; all were at war" is ____________________.

Ovid's description of the Golden Age says _______________________________________________.

An example in the Metamorphoses that Ovid was influenced by the scientific theories of his time is ________________________.