The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Book XIV: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. According to the myth, Circe was the aunt of Medea. What similarities do you find in their characters ?

2. Explain the allusion that Venus, “angry about her father’s gossiping, / Had made her (Circe) what she was.”

3. The story of Aeneas and Dido, one of the chief plot elements of the Aeneid of Virgil, is told by Ovid in half a dozen lines. What effect, if any, do they have on the reader?

4. What well-known theme is repeated in the story of the wish of the Sibyl?

5. What great change has occurred in the fate of the...


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