What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 40s What it’s “about”: What it said on the tin. No horses though. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: Troy burned, nor had its fires guttered out, While Jove's shrine drank, a single... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #084/111: “The Dispute over Achilles’ Armour”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud):33 mins 16 seconds (the longest section of the whole thing, longer than Phaethon's Ride and Nestor's Tale of the Centaurs). What it’s “about”: The Greeks argue over who should get Achilles’ armour. Ajax says he should... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #083/111: “The Death of Achilles” (We’ll always have Paris)
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 12s What it’s “about”: Achilles makes some powerful enemies (Neptune and Apollo combined) Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: Nor had his hatred of Achilles dwindled; And as the days went on, it... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #082/111: “Nestor’s Tale of the Centaurs”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 26mins 32s What it’s “about”: a very very bloody and graphic Centaur versus humans fight (which the centaurs started) at a wedding. Grim stuff. Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: Gruesome shit. Only gruesome shit.... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #081/111: “Caenis”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 18s What it’s “about”: They sit around bullshitting after the battle.Nestor tells them of a beautiful young woman, Caenis who is minding her own business when Nepture rapes her. She asks to be turned... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #080/111: “The Trojan War Begins”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 12. How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 39s What it’s “about”: The clue is in the title Words I didn’t know: xx Quotable quotes: There, where the altar fires flashed through darkness They saw a blue-green dragon climb a tree, Whose... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #079/111: “Aesacus and Hesperia”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. Aesacus and Hesperia, engraving by Johann Ulrich Krauss for a 1690 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 771–776. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 28s What it’s “about”: More goddam rape. This time the rapist takes responsibility for his crime... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #078/111: “Metamorphosis of Alcyone”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 54s What it’s “about”: Morpheus does the ‘dreamhack’, so Alcyone knows Ceyx is dead. She grieves her husband and then, well, Kingfisher lives… Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: On gliding wings (one... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #077/111: “Sleep”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. Or if you prefer How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 49s What it’s “about”: Iris is on a mission from (a g)od. She wakes Sleep, gives him the gig, gets out before falling asleep. Sleep taps Morpheus on the shoulder…... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #076/111: “The Journeys of Ceyx”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 52s What it’s “about”: Ceyx is begged not to set sail to Delphi (roads too bandit-y). He sails. There’s a big ass storm, he and everyone else dies. The pining wife irritates Juno so... Continue Reading →
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