I really enjoyed this unit. The Ovid's Metamorphoses focuses on females characters -- both mortals and immortals. One of my favorite stories in this unit was the story of Persephone's Fate. I liked how they used the story of Persephone to explain why there are seasons. Persephone is forced to divide her year between her husband and her mother. When she is with her mother for so many months the weather or seasons are nice but when Persephone is away from her mother, with her husband, the weather is cold and harsh.
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Another story that I really enjoyed was the story of Arachne and Minerva and Minerva Weaves a Web . Reading this story, I have found that the moral of story is to not gloat but to be humble. Arachne too such great pride in her weaving. She believed that she was better than even the Goddess Minerva, who is known for her amazing weaving. Arachne challenges Minerva. In the result of this challenge, Arachne is turned into a spider.
A story similar to Arachne and Minerva was the story of Niobe Rejects Latona. It is similar to the story of Arachne and Minerva in that it teaches the reader to not be selfish and arrogant. Niobe believed that she was so much better than Latona. So much that, Niobe believed that people should worship her and build an alter for her instead of for Latona. Because of Niobe's gloating and arrogance, Latona punished Niobe by killing her children. Niobe's children sufferred because of Niobe's arrogance.
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