The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Book IV: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Was the taboo against working on holidays a Greek specialty? What other religious traditions have similar prohibitions?

2. Book Four illustrates one of the manners in which myths have come down through ancient times. What was it?

3. How did women in ancient Greece occupy themselves?

4. What metamorphosis is explained by the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe?

5. What aspects of that myth did Shakespeare “borrow” for Romeo and Juliet?

6. In what way did he employ the same source in A Midsummer Night’s...


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