What this project is about.
This one is from Book 3.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 14 mins 25s
What it’s “about”: Tiresias tells Pentheus how it is going to play out (gory) and so it does (gory). Some sailors get turned into various kinds of sea life. Gory.
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes: xx
“I’ll have no deadly symptoms of delay”
“And all advisers who were urgent calm, yet futile”
“They roar and steam in foaming spray,
Their powers increased by all that holds them back”
“Pentheus answered “We have heard your long
Romance, a story told no doubt to stay
Our passions and to let them cool…”
How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Hubris, Nemesis, all that jazz
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
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