Reading Notes: Week 2 Anthology

 Reading Notes For "Pygmalion" 

- Full of beautiful sentencing, phrases like:

•  "offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart"
•  "He marvels: and passion, for this bodily image, consumes his heart"
• " heifers, their curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck"

- It's very descriptive in wording. Gives a clear picture of the clothes and object that the main character buys for the statue he falls in love with. 

- The writer described the goddess Aphrodite as "Golden Venus" 

- "Ivory Girl"

-The setting of a remote island is interesting for a story of magic and metamorphosis, a lot of strange magic can happen on an island

 - Mordern Day Cyprus actually apart of Turkey in the Republic of Cyprus

-"the daughters of Propoetus spending their lives in wickedness"

Link for info:

https://mythontheweb.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/the-daughters-of-propoetus/

• refused to acknowledge Aphrodite and her divinity
• the goddess punished them by turning them into prostitutes and ruining their virtue

This leads Pygmalion to be horrified and create "perfect woman" 

-Story is a reinforcement of what the role of a woman was back in ancient Greece and to show them as general "wicked" characters...genderbend for a different perspective  

-Add more info of Venus' involvement with the couple

-Child named "Paphos" and island named after him 

-Different from the other myths and folklore I read because sounds like a novel

Bibliography 

Story Source: Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline (2000).

 http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/04/ovids-metamorphoses-pygmalion.html

 

 

 Image Information: Pygmalion priant Vénus d'animer sa statue by Jean-Baptiste Regnault.