Answer the prompt in 100-250 words. Consider the version of the Ovid tale Atalanta and the Race of the Golden Apples that we analyzed in lecture and compare it to the version in your reading for this week. Are any of these themes or ideas considered appropriate for children? Why might Ovid’s version of this story be problematic to read to a young boy without the context of the greater frame story? What might the original convey the young girls understanding the sexualization of their bodies by societal standards of beauty as commodity? I suggest that now is as good a time as ever to pause and interrogate why the concept of childhood innocence comes so easily into your mind as you begin to think about these questions. How do adaptations of myth and literature for children choose content in order to paint a picture not of ancient Greek or Roman mythology par exellence but of our own societal standards for children in our modern era. It’s really a mirror of our own ideas and feelings about childhood: what assumption do you think is the retelling of Ovid’s myth based on? What are Martin and Dillion prioritizing for their young readership? Does the modern picturebook have a different moral outcome than Ovid? Why might that be?
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