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How is Virgil’s narrator sympathetic to Orpheus? When and why does he censure him? How does this twofold perspective affect the overall theme of the myth?
How does Virgil’s version present women, or other female figures like Persephone, and how does it contrast them with men?
Ovid’s version appears in a book of mythical stories about constant change and transformation. What are the changes that take place during the course of this myth? Are the changes for good or ill? Does anything remain the same at the end as it was at the beginning?
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