The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Book XV: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What was the role of Hercules in the history of Crotona?

2. What was the significance of the founding of Crotona?

3. What were the two main teachings of Pythagoras?

4. What personal testimony did Pythagoras give of metempsychosis?

5. To what episode in the Metamorphoses does “Salmacis” allude to?

6. Identify the allusions to Delos, the Argo, and the Clashing Rocks.

7. How could Pythagoras “remember” what Helenus told Aeneas?

8. What is the intention of Hippolytus in talking to Egeria?

9. Where is Etruria?

10. Why...

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