Ovid’s Metamorphoses #008/111: “Io and Jove” (don’t have a cow, man)

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 1.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 18 seconds

What it’s “about”: 

Jove’s eye likes to rove

When Juno’s almost found them in a grove

Well Jove turns Io to a cow

How’s she supposed to cope right now?

She tells her dad the facts, spelling stuff out with her hoof

He’s more concerned about himself, and all aloof

Then Argos kidnaps her, the jerk

Mercury is sent to do wet work…

Words I didn’t know: None

Quotable quotes: 

“Jove overcame her scruples and her flight.” Er, he raped her.

“Either my mind’s at fault or I’m betrayed.”

How it lands to my eco-sensibility:

Horny god is an asshole to a human, another god gets jealous and the human ends up being turned into a cow/tree whatever. The gods were dicks, and the humans knew it and had to live with it, basically. The Book of Job, with no happy ending.

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

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: None

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

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx

Io and Jove: Men.

Metamorphoses “Io and Jove “