Name the Myth
About another boy who flies "too close" to the sun.
What is "Phaethon" (extra pts: who was the other boy?)
In which the goddess of Love is really at fault for a kidnapping...
What is "The Rape of Proserpina"
Ovid grew up under this Roman ruler.
Who is Caesar Augustus (extra pts: who ushered in what era in Roman history?)
Symbolic of the patchwork nature of myths (and human nature).
What is "tapestry"
The ancient word for fatal flaw.
What is Hamartia
Makes a god human soup...and turns into a wolf (doggo!).
Who is "Lycaon"
In which Divine power is shown to be dangerous, not something to be wished for... (two possible answers)
"Semele" or "Phaethon"
Ovid's parents wanted him to be this when he grew up...but instead he became this. (two-parter)
What is a politician...and a poet.
Symbolic of the power of art to express the self's worth...
What is the "lyre"
The hero whose fatal flaw was rage.
Who is Achilles
Gets torn apart by his own doggos. :(
Who is "Actaeon"
In which Venus falls in love, showing that the gods are not immune to human desires...
What Ovid tended to write about...
What is Love (baby don't hurt me)
MOST OFTEN symbolic of (or resulting from) humans not worshipping the gods properly...
The hero whose fatal flaw was arrogance
Who is Odysseus
In which someone talks too much...and someone else falls in love with their reflection.
In which the Big and Little Dippers are created...
What is "Callisto and Arcas"
This happened to Ovid's books, and this is why.
Ovid's books were banned because they stood against the moral purity that Augustus tried to usher in.
Symbolic of crushed or broken innocence...
The ancient word for Aeneas' (potential) fatal flaw
What is Furor
In which a con-man goes forever hungry...
What is "Erysichthon" (extra pts: how does he try to feed his hunger?)
In which Ovid claims that wickedness finds its root in humankind...
What is "Creation"
Another reason that the authorities of Ovid's day did not take kindly to Ovid's writings...
Ovid criticized political authority, in the form of his critique of the Roman gods...
The fatal flaw in Ovid's world...
What is "placing your worth in the wrong things" OR "trying to steal someone else's worth"