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Question 1. Would Ovid's teacher of the cures for love agree or disagree with this quote from Daphnis and Chloe: "On that night and that night alone (after doing the work of collecting their scattered flocks) they both slept deeply and found in their hard work a cure for the pain of love." Define "otium" in your response.
Question 2. What, according to the author of Daphnis and Chloe constitutes the 'happy' (desirable ) end of the maturation (and erotic education) of the two foundlings? Or in other words, what does it mean to grow up?
Question 3. How does Miller explain the universal female plaint: "My husband/boyfriend doesn't talk to me"?
Question 4. The 3 Ovidian tales from the Metamorphoses that you have read have been called Ovid's "profound psychological study of failed relationships." Taking one story as your example, briefly explain why the relationship failed.
Question 5. Explain the erotic paradox in the following quote. Identify the source, context, and speaker in your discussion: "I am in love with myself. I torture myself. What am I doing-loving or being loved? What can my courtship gain? What I want, I am. But being all that I long for-that is my destitution. Why can't I get apart from my body? This is a new kind of lover's prayer. To wish himself apart from the one he loves."
Question 6. Explain the evolutionary reason that young women tend to put their age first in personal advertisements for a male partner.
Question 7. Explain the evolutionary reason that mate choice is more complex for females than it is for males.
Question 8. Explain the paradox that women generally have higher verbal abilities than men, but men generally talk more in mixed groups.
Question 9. What metaphors does Ovid use for love in the Ars Amatoria? What major metaphor does Ovid use for love in the Remedia Amoris? Can you explain the reason for the difference?
Question 10. People often claim that love makes you a better person. In the Ars Amatoria does love make you better or does it make you want to appear to the other to be better? And is there a big difference between the two alternatives? Or doesn't it matter?
Question 11. Discuss the theme of city vs. country as it plays out in the novel Daphnis and Chloe.