Wednesday May 2

Individual Presentations 4:

Ross Jenson:

• Symposium: The immortal presence of Socrates
• Socrates goal: attain greater knowledge and virtue
• all we know about him is through other people, so it is questionable if we really know anything about him at all
• Recipe for Socrates:
• 1 cup Plato
• 1 tbs Aristotle
• 1 tsp Xenophon
• a pinch of Aristophanes
• all to be taken with a grain of salt
• a contemporary illusion: Braveheart~ William Wallace
• brave
• pious
• influential
• leaders
• died for a greater cause
• Socrates death at court: he was accused of corrupting the youth and was sentenced to death by Hemlock

Sarah Flemming:

• women abducted:

1. Persephone
2. Europa
3. Psyche
4. Agave
5. Herself- marriage

Doug Fejes:

• Pythagoras from Metamorphoses
• not transformed physically like the others, but transforms the readers
• capstone of what Ovid was saying
• showed what man could hope to be someday
• was a parallel between the darkness of the rest of the stories, and Pythagoras
• Framed speech:

1. vegetarians
2. reflects on the themes in Ovid:

• physical changes of the human body
• physical changes of the elements
• where life comes from, and how it circles back around
• vegetarians (a lot of the same ideas are held by PETA members, and vegetarians today)

Katie Crystal:

• how her life (present) possesses the past
• connect stories from the world with her own life
• Bacchus: shares the same morals (peace, love, etc.)
• Athena: Daddy's girl
• Demeter: her mom and Montana is Hades
• Europa: taken away from her father by Montana
• wants to be a teacher: tells her stories to children, so they will tell theirs too

Tyler Engel:

• "love will tear us apart"
• love destroys boundaries
• Antigone: loses her brother, and wants to join him in the underworld
• Lysistrata: destroys boundaries~ dresses the man as a woman, and helps men realize that they need women
• egoism destroys love because it doesn't want to be sparagmosed
• rape: unfortunate to have a pretty face in Ovid, ruins what should be sacred
• 2 types of love: 1) love and 2) desire
• Lucius shows us how to properly love- same morals as Diotema
• though voluntary death you become something else bigger and better

Carly Parelius:

• collective unconscious
• something that you read/hear that speaks directly to you
• exists prior to the experience
• 'reservoir of the experience of our species' ~ Carl Jung
• 'all things change, but never die' ~ Ovid
• timeless mythologies
• Synchronicity: Carl Jung

Dustin Cichosz:

• past possesses the present
• wrote a creative story about his experiences from last Sat
• everything he did connected to stories that we have read
• he was 'wasted' like Bacchus
• Lysistrata: his roommate being controlled by his girlfriend
• Dionysus: drinking a lot
• Golden Ass: did stupid things
• Hermes: wasn't his fault because he was under the influence of Dionysus
• Symposium: talked to his roommate about love
• everything that he experienced had happened before

Cassi Clampitt:

• was inspired by my being 'mental impaired' by Zeus
• the many rapes of Zeus and their children:

1. Alcmene
2. Danae
3. Europa
4. Naiad
5. Semele (was willing)
6. Ganymede
7. Leto
8. Callisto
9. Io
10. Leda

• 150 total
• moral: gods can do whatever they want