Your Very Own Ovid!

Tres puellae...

Over the next two weeks, each of you must translate one of Ovid's Amores from your book. Each puella must pick a different poem.

Your task then is to write your own English poem to a beloved in Ovid's style. Your poem must pick a structured form of English poetry, so no blank verse is allowed. You must submit with your poem an analysis of how it is Ovidian in style and a passage from Ovid (in Latin and with your own translation) that you have imitated.

If you have questions about Ovid's style or about English poetry, please see me or email me.

Your final exam will cover all of the Ovid you have read.

Ovid Art

Tres puellae...



It is time to begin the first of a couple of projects related to your reading of Ovid. Each of you needs to pick one of the myths you are currently reading...Pyramus & Thisbe, Daphne & Apollo, or Pygmalion...and create an art project illustrating the myth. Each of you must pick a different story, so you will need to decide together who is working on what. Your guidelines are the state art packet. Your piece of artwork must adhere to those guidelines and must express as much of your chosen myth as possible. For example, it would not be sufficient to turn in a statue of a girl and claim that it was the statue made by Pygmalion.



The deadline for this is the half week that ends in Thanksgiving Break.