Blog post Ovid’s Metamorphoses #004/111: “The Flood” Jove gets so pissed that he floods the planet – noah joke.

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 1.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 5 mins 20 secs

What it’s “about”: Jove gets so pissed that he floods the planet – noah joke.

Words I didn’t know: none

Quotable quotes: 

He planned a breed of men of heaven’s make, different in spirit, better than the first.  [eugenics]

Would heaven break in fire, And flames pour over earth from pole to pole?

The waves climbed over door and lintel

All was a moving sea without a shore.

And almost every being that breathed on earth

Drowned as it met the flood; those who survived 

Died of starvation on the shores of mountains

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Oh my, what a great account of the flood!

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : xx

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx