CASA Essay competition: THE EXPRESSION OF GRIEF IN THE APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS EPISODE IN OVID’S METAMORPHOSES AND IN FANFICTION
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Abstract
Ovid’s Metamorphoses expresses Apollo’s grief for Hyacinthus as understood by ancient Romans. A fanfiction work, The making of flowers, a tragedy by Kekune, reimagines this grief for a modern audience. This paper analyses how this is accomplished in the fanfiction. It examines the contrasting expressions of ancient and modern grief by analysing the use of Jenkins’ fanfiction writing strategies of recontextualisation, altering the timeline of the canon, and refocalisation. Examining such strategies illustrates how the fanfiction creates a better understanding of Apollo’s grief for modern readers, by providing reasons for the characters’ conduct, their psychological motivations, and the emotional context for their grief.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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