10 Lycaon and Daphne Moralization Exercise
Exercises
Complete your commonplace book entry: Try to guess how the OM might moralize, or even draw your own moralizations from the stories. Here’s the model to follow for each tale:
Lycaon/ Daphne was a historical figure who ______. For that reason, people said he “turned into a wolf”/ “turned into a tree.” (historical)
There can also be another interpretation, on the moral level. Lycaon/ Daphne is like people who _________. And instead, we should ________. (moral)
On the allegorical level, Lycaon/ Daphne can represent the people who do ______. Thus the tale reminds us [a lesson from the Bible] and not to/to ______. (allegorical)
On the anagogical level, Lycaon/Daphne represent ______ and how, at the Second Coming, ______. (anagogical)
Once you’ve completed your two personal moralizations, read what the OM instructs us in its own moralizations about the two tales translated and adapted from Ovid. How do the moralizations you composed differ from, or relate to, the moralizations furnished by the OM author?