Metamorphoses | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Styx River - This flows through the underworld, and a vow made by this is binding even for the immortals.

Python - This stretched across an entire mountainside, and it took a thousand of Apollo's arrows to kill.

Laurel Tree - This is what Daphne was transformed into while trying to escape Apollo.

Naiad - These are water nymphs, the daughters of rivers.

Syrinx - This is a pipe reed that Pan created for music when the nymph he chased was transformed to marsh reeds.

Peacock - This is sacred to Juno and...
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