What this project is about.
This one is from Book 1.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 5 mins 36s
What it’s “about”: Jove is happy with the Flood, but then sees the somewhat insipid Deucalion and his equally insipid wife. He relents. Themis gives Deucalion (son of Prometheus) and Pyrra (for it is she) a really nasty task (not quite “sacrifice Isaac”, but same ish ball park). On advice, D and P seem to pull a fast one (?), kind of Hansel and Gretel but with magic pebbles. Don’t know if it will bite them ont the ass
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes: xx
How it lands to my eco-sensibility: The waters going up and down is kinda cool.
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
The wikipedia entry is uncharacteristically scant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion_and_Pyrrha
Here’s Rubens
marchudson.net 
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