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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 39s What it’s “about”: There’s a sea-wolf preying on men and cattle. To stop it will be death. King Ceyx is manning up, his wife begs him to stop. Peleus says he will deal... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. https://www.polegri.it/daedalion/ How long it took to read this (aloud): 5 mins 11 What it’s “about”: A king (Ceyx) tells a tale to his guest about unhappy families and a man turned to a boid (again). The moral is - don’t mouth off about the... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. This is thoroughly objectionable shit. TW for sexual assault. How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 59s What it’s “about”: Jove keeps his dick in his whatever-gods-wear for once, but not because he has any respect for anyone. So he gets... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 7s What it’s “about”: Apollo sees Troy being built, gets a contract to help with that. The Trojan king stiffs Apollo and Neptune (why would you DO that??) and consequences ensue. Hercules sticks his... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 11. How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 00s What it’s “about”: Midas and Silenus on a bender. Midas delivers Silenus home to Bacchus, is rewarded with a wish. Wishes for the golden touch, it turns out to be a lot LESS... Continue Reading →
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