Ovid’s Metamorphoses #012/111: “Jove and the Arcadian Nymph”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 2.

Trigger warning – sexual assault.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 54s

What it’s “about”: Jove raping a human, again (Callisto).  Callisto gets punished, again (turned into a bear). Jove’s wife, Juno, for whatever reason blames the human rather than her rapist husband. Jove stops the human’s son (his child) from killing the bear, taking them up to be stars. Juno then complains to some Ocean gods about this.

Words I didn’t know: None

Quotable quotes: 

And at one glance heat flamed within his bones

And though a huntress, fearful of the chase, Too often she forgot her beastlike being and trembled as she looked at other bears that wandered at their will on mountain sides

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Fucking Jove.  I mean, seriously.

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