What this project is about.
This one is from Book 1.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 54 seconds
What it’s “about”: Apollo gets wood
Words I didn’t know: none
Quotable quotes:
“The sterile fires that feed on empty hopes”
“Nor can physician cure himself”
“Cover with green earth/This body I wear too well.”
How it lands to my eco-sensibility:
What did the fucking serpent do to you that it deserves killing? Eh?
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne
Apollo and Daphne is an Ancient Greek transformation or metamorphosis myth. No written or artistic versions survive from ancient Greek mythology, so it is likely Hellenistic in origin.[1] It was retold by Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette.
The myth purportedly explains the origin of the laurel tree and its connection to Apollo, although “Apollo was emphatically associated with the laurel before the advent of the Daphne myth.”[1] Details vary between different versions, but the beautiful nymph Daphne rejects the love of Apollo and is turned into a tree.
marchudson.net 
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