Poetry Discussion Group: Ovid's Metamorposes

[cacian]

Hm……I am curious what is so important about nudity. We had a tread about public nudity with strong proponents for it. Here we go again.

I haven’t finish Ovid but I haven’t found Ovid talking about nudity. He was more busy to report abductions, rape, or murders. Don’t you think that it is more interesting to discuss how and why religions were modified? It involves changing the concept of nudity too. Or, why many myths were in contradiction.
Or even discuss gods affairs........some of them were quite busy.

there is no importance in nudity.
what I was trying to say is that one can do what they wish but one must always ask wether it is OK to go nude in front of others.
It is not everybody's cup of tea and it is not mine.
I would not go nude in front of others and so would expect people to do the same towards me.
We are not all the same and we do not all share the same enthusiasm about anything and everything.

[ftil]

there is no importance in nudity.
what I was trying to say is that one can do what they wish but one must always ask wether it is OK to go nude in front of others.
It is not everybody's cup of tea and it is not mine.
I would not go nude in front of others and so would expect people to do the same towards me.
We are not all the same and we do not all share the same enthusiasm about anything and everything.

It must have importance for you……. since it is another tread that you brought this up.

I think that public nudity tread will satisfy your curiosity as you will have 235 posts to read.....Then, you may be happy to read Ovid.
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=62958

[cacian]

It must have importance for you……. since it is another tread that you brought this up.

I think that public nudity tread will satisfy your curiosity as you will have 235 posts to read.....Then, you may be happy to read Ovid.
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=62958

Haha..no not really, I had to move to here because the other thread was not appropriate.
Hey thank you about the post.
I did read it and posted in it...

[ftil]

Haha..no not really, I had to move to here because the other thread was not appropriate.
Hey thank you about the post.
I did read it and posted in it...

You are welcome. Stluke have also posted for you his tread about nudity. So, you have 2 treads to discuss it. Hopefully you will read Ovid and discus it here. Ancients gods had, let say, busy life. As a female, I have found shocking that the old war between men and women started with gods as myths tell about endless abductions and rapes of goddesses and women.

[cacian]

You are welcome. Stluke have also posted for you his tread about nudity. So, you have 2 treads to discuss it. Hopefully you will read Ovid and discus it here. Ancients gods had, let say, busy life. As a female, I have found shocking that the old war between men and women started with gods as myths tell about endless abductions and rapes of goddesses and women.

Thank you.
I can't see Stluke thread.
Which section is it in?
I must get on to Ovid as soon as I can and see what I can draw out of it.
Indeed it is reckless to think there is/was a war between a man and a woman let alone a war at all.

[ftil]

Thank you.
I can't see Stluke thread.
Which section is it in?
I must get on to Ovid as soon as I can and see what I can draw out of it.
Indeed it is reckless to think there is/was a war between a man and a woman let alone a war at all.

He posted a link on a previous page. Post # 122. It is an art tread where Stluke presents his interpretation of nudity in art.
I have a different interpretation....but we are free to disagree.

I read about Zeus again. It is hard to catch with his all affairs.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 114 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"As a spotted serpent [Zeus seduced] Deois [Persephone]."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 113 ff :
"In a golden shower [Zeus] fooled Danae."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 111 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Jupiter [Zeus] once in a Satyr' guise had got Nycteis [Antipope daughter of Nykteus] with twins."
http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/ZeusLoves3.html