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Describe the specific context (who is speaking to whom, about what, etc.) and explain the significance of the following passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4-6 good sentences): with its long snout, it turned and knocked loose the weapon stained with its own blood, then bore down upon our hero, and, as he attempted to flee for his life in sheer terror, it sank its tusks deep into the young fellow’s privates, and stretched him out on the yellow sands, where he lay dying.
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Establish the context (who is speaking, what is happening to whom under what circumstances, etc.) and explain the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences): My own fate and the deadly crimes of that Spartan whorehave plunged me in this hell. Look at the souvenirs she left me!And how we spent that last night, lost in deluded joys,you know. Remember it we must, and all too well.When the fatal horse mounted over our steep walls,its weighted belly teeming with infantry in arms—she led the Phrygian women round the city, feigningthe orgiastic rites of Bacchus, dancing, shriekingbut in their midst she shook her monstrous torch,a flare from the city heights, a signal to the Greeks.
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