The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Book II: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What was the central imagery of the artwork on the gate on the Palace of the Sun?

2. Who or what were the companions of the Sun-god sitting on his throne?

3. Why did Phaethon ask for his fatal ride, and why did his father permit it?

4. Why is the Tiber, a small river, included in the list of great rivers?

5. How did the “almighty father” terminate the catastrophe of Phaethon’s folly?

6. Why did Jove descend to Arcady?

7. What is the significance of the fact that Callisto and Arcas must be “kept out of the...


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