Blog post Ovid’s Metamorphoses #006/111: “The New World”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 1.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 1 min 30s

What it’s “about”: As the waters recede and new life springs up.

Words I didn’t know: None

Quotable quotes

“Within the weed-grown swamps left by the flood

The animal kingdoms of the earth appeared.
The seeds of earth swelled in the heat of noon

As in a mother’s womb – as when the seven-lipped

Nile shrinks to its source, so the sun’s heat wakens

The moss-green river side…

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: beautiful stuff!

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : None

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

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

Further research questions: what do the evolutionary biologists think of it all?

Anything else: xx

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