Help with Mythology/Ovid?

1. What negative future predictions doe Ovid’s Golden Age point out?

2. What images does Ovid specifically use to describe the positive outcomes in this Age?

3. What god overthrows another god in the Silver Age?

4. What spectacle of nature is created during the Silver Age?

5. What aspects of humanity most characterize the Iron Age?

6.Thematically, what specific aspects do all these stories share?

7. According to Ovid in the story of Lycon, to what depths has man sunk, prompting the gods’ wrath?

8. What grim picture of man does he paint?

9. List in what order and in detail what was created in the Genesis story.

10. How does this creation story differ from Ovid’s?

Give at least three examples.

11. What similarities can you find between the man/woman relationship in the Creation myths and Genesis?

12. Are there any similar images in the Creation and Genesis?